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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Architecture The Big Trees of Seattle

Posted by Charles Mudede on Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:17 PM

What I love most is the allness of big trees. Yes, allness—wholeness is too healthy a word for my purposes, whereas allness has some of the goodness of wholeness in it and also the heavy dread of its near double in sound, awfulness. (Sartre’s existentially sensitive hero feels this awfulness in allness when he is overwhelmed by the details of a big tree in a park near the middle of the novel Nausea.) This tree is rooted near Jose Rizal Bridge.

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That tree is a beauty. What kind is it?

Posted by seandr on September 5, 2012 at 2:36 PM

Like your nifty Short Film Fridays, can you provides passages of Sarte in something called, say, Feel the Nausea Thursdays?

Posted by dnt trust me on September 5, 2012 at 2:50 PM

I think of you every time I go by Magnolia Park because of your Sexiest Trees feature a couple years ago. I'm glad I don't know where Jose Rizal Bridge is.

Posted by cliche on September 5, 2012 at 3:24 PM

Seandr: Most likely a big leaf maple.

Posted by LMcGuff

on September 5, 2012 at 3:30 PM

I too like this tree.

It is a shame you don't like the country chuck, it is full of forest and trees, of course it is also full of white people with guns.

Posted by Cascadian Bacon on September 5, 2012 at 3:32 PM

I, too, say big leaf maple, a majestic, but overlooked, tree, since it's somewhat common.

Posted by floater on September 5, 2012 at 10:13 PM