Comments on: the wolf tree http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/ a place where nature, photography and writing meet Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:52:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: bev http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90314 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:24:02 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90314 Hello Azur -- I tried to view your photo, but it took me to the start of your Picasa gallery and a slide show. Unfortunately, I have such a bad internet connection that I couldn't get the slide show to work. If you can post the URL directly to the tree photo, I can probably see it. You are right about there being few references to wolf trees on the net. I looked around for them, but the term doesn't seem to be used very much -- perhaps because it's one of those vanishing words that is losing its meaning in our time -- which is too bad. Hello Azur — I tried to view your photo, but it took me to the start of your Picasa gallery and a slide show. Unfortunately, I have such a bad internet connection that I couldn’t get the slide show to work. If you can post the URL directly to the tree photo, I can probably see it. You are right about there being few references to wolf trees on the net. I looked around for them, but the term doesn’t seem to be used very much — perhaps because it’s one of those vanishing words that is losing its meaning in our time — which is too bad.

]]> by: Azur Moulaert http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90179 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:57:20 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90179 For a recent photo I took check here: http://tinyurl.com/3c58we For a recent photo I took check here:

http://tinyurl.com/3c58we

]]> by: Azur Moulaert http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90173 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:38 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-90173 Wolf trees are a rather common occurence in the Vermont landscape. Alas the wolves are long gone. We use to have sheep throughout the state now that industry is no more. Here's a photo of a tree I found over the weekend. It is curious how there are not that many references on the web. We should start posting them here. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/moulaert/SelectionOfBestPhotos/photo#5077176844679408898" rel="nofollow"></a> Wolf trees are a rather common occurence in the Vermont landscape. Alas the wolves are long gone. We use to have sheep throughout the state now that industry is no more. Here’s a photo of a tree I found over the weekend. It is curious how there are not that many references on the web. We should start posting them here.

]]> by: burning silo http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-37611 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:47:38 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-37611 Ann - Thanks for adding yet another note regarding Wolf trees. I think it's great to hear about traditions in various parts of the countryside - and also find that so many are similar. Ann - Thanks for adding yet another note regarding Wolf trees. I think it’s great to hear about traditions in various parts of the countryside - and also find that so many are similar.

]]> by: Ann Getsinger http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-37387 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:25:32 +0000 http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2006/12/29/the-wolf-tree/#comment-37387 A few years ago I did an oil painting called Pumpkin and Wolf Pine, so named after a story told to me by an old timer out here in western Massachusetts. He said that back when everyone had a woodlot (or when the woods were logged for one reason or another, i.e. charcoal, etc.) people would leave a nice big tree up near the ridgelines in order that it's seeds or cones would roll or blow downhill and re-seed the forest. In that case the term "wolf" might have referred to the imagery associated with a lone wolf up on a high place howling to his fellow wolves. A few years ago I did an oil painting called Pumpkin and Wolf Pine, so named after a story told to me by an old timer out here in western Massachusetts. He said that back when everyone had a woodlot (or when the woods were logged for one reason or another, i.e. charcoal, etc.) people would leave a nice big tree up near the ridgelines in order that it’s seeds or cones would roll or blow downhill and re-seed the forest. In that case the term “wolf” might have referred to the imagery associated with a lone wolf up on a high place howling to his fellow wolves.

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