Number 10

The bark of this maple tree, enlivened by mist and moss, is like an intricately woven tapestry--with incurved flowers of wood.

Number 8

There is a mysterious lake in Prince Edward County, called Lake On The Mountain, with the most majestic, old willow trees, like giant goddesses, surrounding and guarding the water.  Their porous, silvery bark invites the touch and gathers moisture from the lake. 
In his book Water And Dreams, Gaston Bachelard suggests  "that life is simply an aroma, that it emanates from a being as an odor emanates from the substance, that a plant growing in a stream must express the soul of water...." 

Number 7

Jersey Lyric

view of winter trees
before
one tree

in the foreground
where
by fresh-fallen

snow
lie 6 woodchunks ready
for the fire

William Carlos Williams, "Jersey Lyric" from Pictures from Brueghel (New York: New Directions, 1962, p.33