#oak
#Druid (n.)
"one of the order of priests among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland," 1560s, from French druide (16c.), from Latin druis, fem. druias (plural druidae), from Gaulish Druides, from Celtic compound *dru-wid- "strong seer," from Old Celtic *derwos "true" (from PIE root *deru- "tree," especially #oak) + *wid- "to #know" (from PIE root *weid- "to see"). Hence, literally, perhaps, "they who know the oak" (perhaps in allusion to divination from mistletoe). Anglo-Saxon, too, used identical words to mean "tree" and "truth" (treow).
The English form comes via Latin, not immediately from Celtic. Old English had dry "magician," presumably from Old Irish drui. The Old Irish form was drui (dative and accusative druid; plural druad), yielding Modern Irish and Gaelic draoi, genitive druadh "magician, sorcerer." Not to be confused with the United Ancient Order of Druids, a secret benefit society founded in London 1781.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/Druid?ref=etymonline_crossreference
December Full Cold Moon
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/cold.html
https://www.moongiant.com/moonphases/december/2022/
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/why-is-mars-sometimes-bright-and-sometimes-faint/
https://vibrational-astrology.com/2022/11/28/full-moon-in-gemini-2022/
This #fullmoon is the last full moon of the Northern Hemisphere’s autumn – and Southern Hemisphere’s springtime – and it’s also the last full moon of 2022.
#december #full-cold-moon #long-nights #moon-before-yule #oak #wolf #mourning #lunar #solarsystem #sun #earth #sky #moon #mars #astronomy #astrology #gemini
13 septembre 2022
Combien ne deviendront jamais des chênes? Est-ce un choix ou est-ce une fatalité, la faute à pas de chance, pas tombés au bon endroit au bon moment? Dans ceux qui tombent sur un sol favorable, pourquoi certains se transforment et d'autres pas? Balayer la terrasse et observer le jardin me rend parfois pensive.
#photodujour #journalphoto #defi #quotidien #artiste #photographe #pictureoftheday #photodiary #challenge #artist #photographer #gland #chene #automne #nature #jardin #acorn #oak #fall #automn #garden #photo
The walk of the young trees
Every day I walk for about an hour in my neighbourhood called, Nørrebro. Today, in the street called Asminderødgade, I saw some young ash trees which for some reason grabbed my attention. I have passed them many times without ever really looking at them, but today was different.
Here they are. The ash trees of Asminderødgade
The ash trees have had a hard time the last many years because of an evil fungi that has killed many of them. But I read once that they have found a variant that can withstand this threat and maybe these are of that resistant sort.
The same trees from another angle
The space beneath is a chaotic bicycle parking lot. It has been very windy these last couple of days so everything is in disarray.
Here you can see the roots of the trees messing with the pavement.
The weather today was sunny, rainy, sunny again, dark, light, dark again. I started to take some photos of other trees as I walked on. Most of them young trees so you can appreciate the work of the local municipality gardeners.
Here are some newly planted trees at Nørrebro station, where there has been a lot of construction going on in connection with the new underground city ring metro.
Here's an older platanus tree in Arresøgade. The platanus is not really fit for the cold and windy Danish weather, but it is thriving in cities where it can get shelter among the tall buildings.
A young oak tree in Guldbergsgade.
And another oak tree in the same street with a cosy place for the locals.
The beautiful horse chestnut is quite common. This one also in Guldbergsgade.
The square where both Sjællandsgade Church, the old Bathing house and Guldbergsgade School is situated. A lot of newly planted trees here. In 50 years time it will become a stately place.
To finish off I have a picture of the trees of the graveyard, Assistens Kirkegård. In there you will find some very old trees some which goes back to the founding in 1760. Many famous people lies here. The physicist Niels Bohr, the writer Hans Christian Anderson, Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and many more. The trees in there are beautiful and old, but I didn't go in there today as my walk had become the walk of the young trees. Maybe I'll go take some photos from in there another day.
#Walk #walking #trees #young #ash #platanus #oak #horsechestnut #Nørrebro #Copenhagen #Denmark
Making my #calculations in #LibreCAD for my #stairs - #liveEdge #oak #slabs
Online stair calculators assume you are cutting the stairs into the stringers and nailing down the boards on top of the cuts - I'm leaving the live edge and making my calculations from a center line - so the online calculators don't work.
December ‘cold moon,’ final full moon of 2021, to shine this weekend
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2111/full-moon-guide-december-2021-january-2022/
https://earthsky.org/tonight/december-full-moon-mimics-the-june-sun/
https://www.moongiant.com/moonphases/december/2021/
https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/moon-phase-day-19-december-2021
https://vibrational-astrology.com/2021/12/10/full-moon-in-gemini-2021/
We’re about to get the #longest #full #moon of the year. Known as #December’s #cold-moon, the #fullmoon will fill the #sky Saturday night, #December18-19 #2021. It’s the last full moon that we’ll see before the #winter #solstice hits in the #Northern #Hemisphere.
#cold #frost #winter #oak #long-night #moon-before-yule #datta-jaynati #mourning #elder #gemini #earth #cosmos #lunar #apogee #micromoon #astronomy #astrology
#YA in a very old #oak tree in the #Pyrénées-Orientales .. #photography #2007
#Renée led me there, we were in search of hawthorn blossoms... with us was her 91y old mom.
#TwentyFive #Old #Borges #Ranch #Cows #Grazing #GreenGreenGrass #CastleRockRoad #Valley #Oak #Trees #Rolling #Hills #Shell #Ridge #Open #Space #Foothills #MountDiablo #Nature #WalnutCreek #Northern #California #Our #World
Yes, I know I've been posting a lot of oak trees ~ but I saved the best for last!
I met #25! ~ Beautiful, isn't she?!... and oh so serious...
OLD BORGES RANCH --
Walnut Creek
April 01, 2019