Photo Journal/ Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette

This week’s photo challenge as hosted by The Daily Post at WordPress is Silhouette. Not very easy, I tell ya, but I managed to find a few that I thought would be just right for this theme.

Silhouette of Trees at Yosemite Park

Photo taken by my husband.

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.” 
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

My Silhouette at Lands End, San Francisco

“As soon as he had disappeared Deborah made for the trees fringing the lawn, and once in the shrouded wood felt herself safe.

She walked softly along the alleyway to the pool. The late sun sent shafts of light between the trees and onto the alleyway, and a myriad insects webbed their way in the beams, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob’s ladder. But were they insects, wondered Deborah, or particles of dust, or even split fragments of light itself, beaten out and scattered by the sun?

It was very quiet. The woods were made for secrecy. They did not recognise her as the garden did. (“The Pool”)” 
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

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