Saturday, 18 August 2012
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SADNESS
In the back yard of my house where I grew up, there is an olive tree park with olive trees of more than a thousand years old.
They have only God knows what. Their roots were homes for many rabbits and even kids could hide inside their trunk.
At night the park was alive with many birds who elected the trees as a sleeping shelter. They make their nests in his branches in the spring.
In the old times they gave of their oil for lighting the church. They had names and we know them personally.
When I left, I went to say goodbye to them, and the last evening I sat all through the early night under an olive tree.
Last year in May, I went back to say hello. They were kind of in bad shape (I mean, the old ones) long hair long time not been trimmed. Lots of weeds around them. They look tired and sad.
I thought I saw some branches moving, like waving to say hello, but it was my imagination as usual.
IN TURRI, THERE HAS BEEN A FIRE AND ABOUT TWENTY ... THOUSAND YEARS OLD OLIVE TREES HAVE BEEN BURNED.
That was the title in the news paper of 08/10/2012.
It is so sad.
A place to hide and listen to the talks of the rabbits in the olive tree house. Long time ago.
The trees were green, olive green.
Fire brigade came, and it was too late. people came and were too late also.
The fire like a angry monster took his share.
Sacrifice must be done was the screaming voice of the fire.
There will be some more emptiness now and the birds have to find another place to sleep.
A thousand years is a long lifetime, but to die burned is cruel.
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/That is so sad!
Very sad.
So sad indeed
Very sad to lose such a beautiful grove of trees!
They had a good long life and did a good job of being trees.
Their spirits live on.
This is more than sad . This is a civilisation that has been burned. I understand your shock.
Amitié
Michel
youTube ; I tried to write a comment below your last video " Sunset at WENDUINE" ; Impossible . When I start to type a placard Google is displayed and tells me things in English that I don' t understand. I only succeeded to type the comment of all of your chaine but not sure it is visible .
Previously I used a system for slide shows called Slide . It has been eaten by Window live !!! My slideshows are lost.
I start to be tired of this war between the systems on the internet. The sharks are not only in the INDIAN OCEAN;.
What a shame to lose such living treasures. But as biggles said, they had a good run. We can hope that something good will rise from the ruins.
Carlo non ho parole, come sì puo commentare una cosa così atroce, questo incendio è doloso?
anche qui in romagna 7 ettari di pineta bruciata, tutta Italia in fiamme.Il problema è, non trovano mai chi incendia.
Cosa sta accadendo in questo mondo......
rita
RYC :French education system;
3 -6 years old, kindergarten
6 -11 year old: Primary school
11 to 15 year old: college
15-18 Lycée (High School), leading to the Bacalauréat (final exam of the secondary studies)
Then universities, or professsional sshools, or preparation to superior schools (engineers, etc..) Or work.
Amitiés
Michel
''Now I Say, as with all living wonders on earth, I Carry the blueprint for them to be with Me in Heaven, once man has taken them to their untimely end, through many many means,some of them not so very nice. To be this old is difficult for any living being, but to become the victim of a feud is horrendous. At least, they do not have the nerve endings of a human. One could say the trees were burned at the stake, but they are also the stake. AMEN''
This is so awful and so sad. I am so sorry.
What a sad story. Even a tree can have its own story.
maybe the trees were not waving hello but goodbye, maybe they knew that would be the final meeting with someone who cared about them so, and perhaps there will be regeneration from the roots and new trees will grow...of course even if they do we will never see them old and gnarly again. This was the saddest story you've ever told and I am sorry for yours and the wild ones loss
Gee, what a sad, sad, event! I was taking a walk in Turri just a few minutes ago, by the magic of google maps, after the other comment I made earlier. How ironic that I read this post after.
I can understand the loss that you must feel. My ex was born and lived 27 years in a mining town in Quebec's north and when the mine shut down around 1985, they also shut down the town they had built to house the workers and their families. I don't mean only shut down, I mean make it disappear, literally, bulldozed to the ground. Now those who were born there have no roots. They are as if born nowhere. Terrible! I guess everyone needs something in the past to cling to, and when one of those things disappears, it creates a big void, quickly filled with our souvenirs. That, at least they can't take away from us.
@Banyuls -
They say 20 wer burned, but they were more than 200, so there are 180 left. A good army of old olive trees. No idea of the age.Fire was probably set, according from Facebook comments from Turri's people. The time in Sardinia is kind of strange. Moves slow and diverted, crooked. It is like the past keeps hanging around longer than somewhere else.@mlbncsga - Perhaps some roots will be not completely death, but I am afraid the heat of the fire hav been too much for the roots to bare.
There are a lot of trees left. They were 200 , now thy will be 180. +-.RYC : Thanks for the congrats .
i look again at your pictures , tHEY ARE MORE THAN PICTURES BUT ART WORK:in the sadness.
Amitiés
Michel