February Monthly Muse Week 3 Trees

Fascinating is right! These trees remind me of our native fig trees which have similar buttress type trunks and I also can imagine them as miniature dwellings! Love that you included both photos, the bottom one to show off their stunning smooth bark and top one showing off their stately arching branches! Amazing layout and love the overlays you have used as well Cheryl! Such a wonderfully perfect page!

@wombat146 Thanks so much, Ona. They are actually from the fig tree family. When we were in Jupiter (where the lighthouse is), they had signs up with their botanical name and it is fig "something". They're called Banyans everywhere else, and that was the first time I had seen them listed as part of the fig tree family. The largest Banyan in the Continental US was at Edison's winter home here in Ft. Myers. The last hurricane we had here took a large portion of it out. Everybody was just sick about it. Thanks for the challenge.

Just beautiful!

@Dady Thanks so much!

I love how you did this! It's thought-provoking and beautiful all at once.

@Electra Thanks so much. I think this is one of my favorites and it honestly just "came together". I love when that happens.

I remember the banyan tree at Edison's home when we visited there so many years ago. These photos are striking!

@mcurtt That was the first Banyan tree I'd ever seen - at The Edison Estate - and I was awestruck! I still am - thanks for your comments.