TreeSquare: trunk calls!
For Becky’s TreeSquare challenge today I am concentrating on trunks, mostly with a message: sometimes not a very friendly one, as seen above on a walk just after last year’s first lockdown, and sometimes more positive such as the tree below by the canal at Claypits.
My beloved Suffrage Oak on the Kelvin Way often sports ribbons in the Suffragette colours. It wore the broad band in 2018 for the centenary of the first UK women to get the vote; the narrow ribbons are more recent.
Suffrage Oak
Suffrage Oak
Finally, I love these trunk / fence hybrids, both alongside the River Kelvin within walking distance of my home. I wonder how long the second one will last before it finally rots away?
Fence/tree hybrid
Fence/tree hybrid
The Glasgow Gallivanter 
Hi Anabel – appropriate message though, but yes – the second is better. Fun to see the tree trunks … especially the one growing round the fence. Love the Suffragette Ribbons … cheers Hilary
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Unfortunately, last time I passed by, the suffragette ribbons had been torn off 😟.
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That first tree is very stern. I do kind of love some of the passive aggressive signs local councils put up though. They’re so very British and never fail to crack me up.
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It is a very British thing, isn’t it?
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Like you, I thought the second sign was much nicer! And I’ve never seen a tree trunk grow around a fence before! I’ve seen people build porches around them, but that’s the structure adapting to the tree, not the other way around. Cool pics!
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Those trees are very determined!
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When I saw the post title I immediately thought of elephants, then thought about telephone calls as I trained as a telephonist at the local telephone exchange when I left school. The first message is blunt but sometimes they have to be – I hope it works.
To be honest I have mixed feelings about people leaving rubbish, especially in the countryside. It’s not nice, it’s an eyesore and could be a danger to some wildlife, and it really annoys me when I see it, but what also annoys me is the lack of bins to put stuff in – in many rural areas around here, especially popular ones, I can walk for miles and never see a bin.
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It was meant to be a pun on phone calls but I think you’re only the second person to get it – or to mention it anyway. I agree about bin provision, it is never adequate.
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The tree messages are right…both of them. I wish more people wouldn’t throw out their trash. Positive messages are always needed even when covid is not around. I love how trees can grow right in fences. They are so resilient
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I think the first one could be a little more friendly!
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Trees are so good at telling us things, you can almost imagine them writing the messages! Lovely post – and so impressed at the number of TreeSquares you have prepared 🙂
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Thank you, that’s praise indeed from the Queen of Squares! I didn’t think I had much in the way of trees until I flicked through the unused photos on my iPad and themes started to suggest themselves.
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well it is well deserved xx
hee hee they get everywhere trees – just making sure we are listening to their messages!
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Tree trunks bearing messages (in more ways than one). Very clever.
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I thought it was a fun theme!
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The first message is pretty blunt but probably necessary. In national parks here there are no bins and everyone is expected to take their rubbish out with them. It works too – there’s nothing left behind.
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I wish it worked as efficiently here!
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A fine collection of trunk messages. One of my branches has grown around the hook I use for a bird feeder. Nothing seems to stop them.
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No, they are determined to grow where they feel the need. I like that in old cemeteries too where trees grow through gravestones.
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Those are good ones. I have noticed nearly every local wood has its own covid 19 decorations/toys/dangling things/ ‘fairy garden’ hanging on every tree but after a year out in the weather they now have more of a faded ‘witchy’ feel about them that I prefer. From bright Covid rainbows and lurid toys left everywhere outdoors to a softer eventual disintegration. Maybe in five or ten years time they will no longer be visible at all…dolls in the dust of history…. like the virus that inspired them.
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Yes, I notice fewer and fewer pieces of covid art outside and in windows. My favourite window bear is still sending out daily messages though, most recently “anybody know what we are supposed to be doing?” which sums things up pretty well.
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Great trunks! It is a good day to be happy! But I no longer want to stay at home! 😀
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No, indeed, though I would definitely take my rubbish home!
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The trunk incorporated into the tree is very interesting. Have you ever seen the bicycle tree in Brig o’ Turk, near Aberfoyle and Callendar? A bicycle was propped up against the tree many years ago and the tree grew round it. Unfortunately I don’t have a decent photo of it to use for the challenge.
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I don’t think I have! I’ll have to look out for it.
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I love the positive message on the second tree, so essential to think like this in our present state. I’ve got a similar one on a post in the garden bought for me by a friend recently, it cheers me up when I look at it.
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Unfortunately, the message disappeared very quickly. It was one of a series (the others were on the railings along the boardwalk) and presumably unauthorised and disapproved of.
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The trunk/fence scene is really unusual. The tree seems to have the fence in its “mouth”.
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It does look as though the tree is eating the fence! I walked past it for years before I actually noticed.
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When I read “trunk calls” I was thinking of long-distance telephone calls first. 😉
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Oh good, that’s what you were meant to think! I’m glad somebody got the joke.
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Every day’s a good day to be happy 🤣💕
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Very true! That should certainly be our aim.
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Love it when trees decide where they are going to grow, not us 😂
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Can’t let a pesky little fence get in the way!
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😂
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I take it you are referring to the Forth & Clyde Canal. There used to be a section of the canal at Port Dundas -= next to the Distillery, I know the distillery is gone but what happened to the canal?
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The canal still goes to Port Dundas, it’s not far beyond Claypits. The warehouses there are now flats and the former Pinkston Power Station is a water sports centre. The Whisky Bond houses the Glasgow Sculpture Studios, the National Theatre of Scotland has its HQ nearby and Applecross and Claypits are all being done up. See this old post for some of it:
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