Tag: Live Oak trees

• Death and Life

  On several of the hikes I’ve been taking lately, I walk through burn zones of recent fires. This time of year, the golden state is a spring green state. Everything looks fresh. Except for the trees. Wildfires have swept through these open spaces in Sonoma County in the last few years. I hiked in Foothill…

  Benjamin Broadbent

  March 6, 2022

  Nature, Sonoma County

  Death, Foothill Regional Park, Life, Live Oak trees, Mount St. Helena, U.S. Marines, Wildfires

• To Fall Like It Fell

  I want to be like this treeThis live oak here in this canyonI want to fall like it fellTo be caught by the same soft ground Toppled, it sees the world anew, from belowIt has new friends with new needsA lizard seeking refugeA pill bug licking its pill bug lipsWaiting for the tree to die…

  Benjamin Broadbent

  February 23, 2022

  Nature, Poetry, Sonoma County

  Live Oak trees, Shiloh Ranch Regional Park