Zen Monday is the day you experience the photo and give us your thoughts rather than me telling you what the photo's about. I look for something worth thinking about or, failing that, at least something odd or silly.
As I post each new Zen Monday photo I'll add a label to last week's to identify it if necessary--if I know what it is.
The pot that got too small, the tree than grew soooo big - 'planted by Leontyne, 1959'
ReplyDeletebeauty of a photo, P.
ReplyDeleteI see a piece of the Ten Commandments tablet that was broken by Moses.
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled on "Overdog". What a great way to show more of your great photos!
A riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a tree trunk.
ReplyDeleteYeah, love this photo. It's like the tree couldn't wait for paper to be invented.
ReplyDeleteFA---more like the "15 commandments (crash), uh, the 10 commandments, yeah, 10!"
ReplyDelete"what the 110 freeway would do to this tree---diverted by a traffic layne, see, told ya it would happen!"
sorry, I grew up in SoPas...the fight that never ends
Boo Radley takes up writing.
ReplyDeleteI got nothing. You guys are too clever for me.
ReplyDeleteThe picture stopped me in my tracks -- love it. Besides, I kind of gave up after I read Susan's comment.
ReplyDeleteNothing witty to say this week, just its a wonderfully unusual photo.
ReplyDeleteTree inspected by Wayne.
ReplyDeleteVanda, that's brilliant! I tried to make something out of those word fragments but gave up. Maybe you're an archeologist?
ReplyDeleteI'm so not good at this P, so it begs the question: WHY do I keep doing it every Zen Monday? I dunno. Here goes...... "I have your nuts. If you're smart you won't call the police. Meet me at the big elm on Oak Street at midnight. And come alone."
ReplyDeleteI have no extra comment, but my word-verification is "cement." Honest.
ReplyDeleteDo I get something for this …?
yes J+P you get to kiss the photographer! ;-)
ReplyDeleteA mystery we can think about when we can't sleep at 3 a.m. :)
ReplyDeleteNice photo.
I have nothing pithy, but I must say that this is my all time favorite of yours. Beautiful, P.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the tree was planted by Theodore Payne? He did quite a bit of landscaping in Pasadena back in the early 1900s, including some of the parks. When he came to LA in 1893, he fell in love with the native flowers and plants and dedicated his life to their planting and preservation.
ReplyDeleteHmm—Bellis may be on to something. The odd part of the fragment is the lettering isn't incised (as you'll see sometimes in a sidewalk or driveway, done by a childish hand). This lettering is raised—i.e., someone molded this message from a negative; some effort went into the legend. But there are no other fragments in the area, nor any obvious wall or plaque from which the piece might have come.
ReplyDeleteMystery history!
ReplyDeleteThank you all. This is one of my favorite Zen Monday shots ever.
ReplyDeleteBellis IS onto something. It sounded familiar to me because I'd blogged about it before. In the 1920's, Theodore Payne was one of the landscape designers of Washington Park. That's where I took this photo.
So was this part of a commemorative sign? Maybe not. But if it was, why was it destroyed? And where are the other pieces, I wonder? Ooh! I just got chills.
Zen Monday mystery history! Either that or Wayne has Boo Radley's nuts.
I think you & I need to go back up to the park in daylight and locate the source of this relic. First, I'm going to reexamine that stone bridge.
ReplyDeleteWord is life
ReplyDeleteI like that, Italo.
ReplyDeleteI want to believe it's an old, old, love letter...
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