The Voice of Trees

Many trees are suffering. All of us are -hopefully- aware of the climate changes going on. Spending time wandering mountain paths gets you in close contact with these changes. I am increasingly worried and saddened by the health of the woods. Many already look ill from afar: loads of dried-up fir trees just waiting for their doom. When I step inside there are dozens of trees lying on the ground: some swollen by the more and more frequent severe summer storms, some cut down because of illness or death. In the villages some trees are cut to accomodate new property designs that always seem to include only little short puffy trees. Some other trees -dead or alive- have stood the test of time and witnessed history. This is why I included a photograph of a WWI fortification, with bare tree trunks forming barbed wire defences. Other trees make their stand in the city, trying to survive gentrification and gifting beauty to our daily lives. Well, I think it is time for all these trees to have their stories told.