First time I read this when I had somethinglike 6 or 7 years. And almost instantly, you know how kid’s mind works, startedto ask a questions why ash tree, why tree, why I should hug it. I tried thismethod and was hugging all the trees around for some time…Let us think, what is tree? Sounds like a quitestupid question, maybe.
Each person knows and saw start to be hopefully, sometimes at least one tree. Simplydefining, a tree is a piece of wood whichgrows from earth upwards. Additionally, usually trees have some typicalelements, like branches, leaves, flowers or fruits.
One very simple, but very useful physicalprinciple, which is, occasionally, were called on one lecture awestern-type-of-looking-at-things by one Japanese professor, when one is tryingto study an object with a number of features. If one or few features among themis at a highest interest or have a major appearance, the object may becharacterized by these features while others are neglected. We won’t go into adiscussion whether it is correct or not, but almost everywhere this principleworks perfectly.
Now let us try to answer a question what istree, keeping in mind mentioned above. First of all, features related to anytree must be defined. I’m proposing to choose the morphologic parts, such asroots, column, branches a few or alot, depends on the tree, leaves thatone is usually a lot and maybe flowers transformed into fruits ifthe tree has them. Now, as a next step, we must choose predominant ones.

Canit be roots? Not for mostpeople and me, simplybecause they are almost always underground and nobody around not seeing them.
Maybeit is column? M-m-m…also not,because it is generally the same wooden stick yes, it is different thinkness, color, hardness, skin, but it isstill a stick.
Thatis definitely must be branches then? If the branches of a tree on somebody’s way growing too low – he may wishto cut them, if they growing too high – one may do not pay attention to them,if they are too dense – one may use it to hide from rain or sun, is there areonly few branches – …something must be wrong with a tree, I think.Nevertheless, a main disadvantage of branches to be a dominant feature of a tree,in my honest opinion, is their constant appearance in time. When a tree isyoung, the growth of branches is, of course, active, but when a tree becomes abit more mature, from year to year they look the same. There is a very nicedefinition of specific functions from mathematics: a slowly changing function,when in relatively short times the function can be approximated by someconstant.
Is itfruits, at least? The answeris no, also. A fruit may be associated as the whole tree not when it is on thetree, but while tasting it. I may say that works for me. And, that will destroyone of the main principles of experimental science: try to observe the effecttrying to do as less influence on it as possible. Eating a part of an object,quite an influence, no?
I know all this text is very arguable. Butthat’s how we do it, motivation goes first. From all of this I wanted you torealize how important a leaf is when a person is looking on a tree.
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At the beginning, I was planning to write somefancy story based on or connected to these photos. Then meaning now I realized the pictures were taken in a differentplaces and time that my brain wouldn’t allow doing such a thing, not to mentionI wrote quite a lot already.

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A last thing to mention before I will start toupload photos is that all the photos are taken for last half-year frombeginning of April up to now. First I planned to make such a set at about lastyear-and-half, but, I did not like old photos at all.