Welcome to the Lives of Trees project, based in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York

I’ve always loved being around trees. And living near Fort Greene Park, I’ve been really lucky to be near some of the most beautiful trees in New York City. Over the years, I’ve been trying to get to know them better. Recently, I started taking pictures and some videos, and doing some research to capture the “lives of the trees” in the park. Here are some of the things I’ve gathered over the past few months.

Another goal of this project is to learn what other people who spend time in the park think about the trees. Please post comments, or send me an email at livesoftrees@gmail.com.

Thanks!
Mira
Please note. I've only recently set up this blog, and am still retroactively adding posts from the last few months. Feel free to view posts in any order to see the trees across the seasons.

The passage of time from the perspective of a tree.

What is the pace of life of a tree? It seems it must be slow, since it can live for hundreds of years. But a young tree can grow faster than a young child, and a tree is changing all the time. Its cells are differentiating into bark and wood, transporting sugars and minerals up and down its trunk, photosynthesizing, budding, and healing its wounds. It is alive just like us, but the difference is that it neither moves nor talks. It stays rooted to one place and silently grows while everything around it moves -- the sun, the seasons, the people, the wind, the birds. It lives through the same days and month and years that we do, but perhaps in its stillness it notices more.
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I decided to document a day in the life of a tree. I picked some of my favorite trees, and photographed them every hour from dawn till dusk. What follows are video slideshows of these photographs.

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