#tree circles

[trishanipha]

Race in circles. Sometimes every effort seems a race in circles and we go back to the start. We won't find each other, if we keep on looking at the wrong direction.

[stephengillette]

Wood shadow. Trabuco Canyon, California, March 12, 2016.

[yowplus]

Are the strange tree circles in Japan the product of aliens?

Are the strange tree circles in Japan the product of aliens?

Japan’s enchanting tree circles are the result of a 50-year experiment that has raised many doubts about the appearance of aliens. The cedar forest in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan is home to unusual tree circles that are clearly not coincidental in nature. These strange patterns can only be seen from above. Three years ago, many pictures of tree circles appeared on the internet, sparking a…

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[shortvisualstories]

Klea McKenna’s series of photograms ‘Automatic Earth’ – tree circles as a nature stamp of human emotions.

“Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a “blue print” that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed. I approach these broken patterns within the landscape as allegories for human emotional experience. It is where the pattern breaks that we are told something: a draught, a trauma, an interaction, the slash of a chainsaw…. a crack in the earth. The flaws in these pre-destined forms become a record of time and of labor and they tell the story of the life that made them.”

[viewhazy]

Massachusetts forests

[fromstarstostarfish]

This is a record player playing the tree rings on a slice of tree trunk.

Music and nature are completely intertwined.  I felt like the music told the story of the tree's life - telling of how it grew, spread it's branches and leaves, provided a home, food, and shade, and eventually, died.  It's eerily beautiful.