Dead Trees and Sunset

     I don't know but I'm always fascinated with dead, dying or leafless trees so I always take pictures of them. But this narra tree isn't dead. There's a season that it looks dead when all its leaves have fallen but it simply rejuvenates. There are times when we are like the narra tree. It's also wonderful to note that narra wood is very hard and strong and has an attractive reddish shiny finish yet it's not the best for furniture as it cracks in the long run. Perhaps, it's one good reason why the late President Manuel L. Quezon wrote, "Grow and be like a molave", the taller and older, the stronger it becomes. It's consistent - unlike the narra that cracks later and becomes leafless at times. We can still learn from narra  though that even if it's left leafless at times, it still thrives. What a hope for rejuvenation!

 

Dead tree and the crimson sunset in Baguio

A lonely tree on the denuded hill at sunset (also in Baguio)

You are the child of the universe

No less than the trees and the stars

You have the right to be here.

-Desiderata

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