Three Graces
by Ginny Schmidt
Title
Three Graces
Artist
Ginny Schmidt
Medium
Photograph - Digital Abstract
Description
This has been one of the more popular images in my redbubble portfolio for many years now. These three trees grace a small waterfront park on the St. Petersburg side of Tampa Bay on the grounds of a hospital that my mother spent a significant amount of time in during 2003 and 2004. I visited for the better part of every day, but would take a break around lunch time and often just sit in the shade of one of these beautiful old banyan trees.
Also known as rubber trees, or ficus elastic, these trees can grow to humongous proportions. As the hanging root clusters reach the ground, they thicken to add to the massive structure, blending in with the central trunk and creating interesting formations, and are able to support long horizontal branches which can then grow to be quite thick and heavy themselves, to the point where a single tree can look more like a small forest all by itself.
As a child, my best friend was one such ancient tree, hidden in an uncleared area near my grandmother's house. I spent many a happy, hot afternoon climbing around in its shady upper structure. The land was cleared almost sixty years ago now to make way for a shopping center, which is still alive and well but which I still refuse to shop at, because it killed my tree.
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March 10th, 2013
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