<div id="post-body-5930602178602032522" class="post-body entry-content" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Off all the trees that grow so fair,<br /> Old England to adorn,<br /> Greater are none beneath the Sun<br /> Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn."<br /><br /> (from A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling: full poem/song at </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/tree_song.html">Kipling</a>)<br /><br /> Trees must be a favourite topic for me because this is my second post with the same title (See </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bobscotney.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-cant-see-wood-for-trees-thematic.html">Thematic Photography</a>). I make no excuse for repeating the picture of a tree that caught my eye on Tresco in the Isles of Scilly. Our children treated my wife and I to a holiday there for our golden wedding anniversary in 2008.<br /><br /></span> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AfR5KJNF6_0/Tky47He3DkI/AAAAAAAAECc/4YBbvk1rjjk/s128/Tresco%252520065.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AfR5KJNF6_0/Tky47He3DkI/AAAAAAAAECc/4YBbvk1rjjk/s400/Tresco%252520065.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Tresco Tree </strong></span></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">What few trees there are on Tresco tend to be stunted by the wind, but not those in Tresco Abbey Gardens where you can find specimens from all over the world.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F1tTBM7fnGY/Tky4HL9o-II/AAAAAAAAECM/yc6lFUarlJo/s512/Tresco%252520077.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F1tTBM7fnGY/Tky4HL9o-II/AAAAAAAAECM/yc6lFUarlJo/s400/Tresco%252520077.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cu4cnuvhn9c/Tky4TgE7Y_I/AAAAAAAAECQ/WTVvbeAnKSU/s512/Tresco%252520078.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cu4cnuvhn9c/Tky4TgE7Y_I/AAAAAAAAECQ/WTVvbeAnKSU/s400/Tresco%252520078.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rma87SWNHT8/Tky4f8jARlI/AAAAAAAAECU/PzZWcsCYmi4/s512/Tresco%252520079.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rma87SWNHT8/Tky4f8jARlI/AAAAAAAAECU/PzZWcsCYmi4/s400/Tresco%252520079.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Trees in Tresco Abbey Gardens</strong></span></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">All five of us stayed at the Tresco Island Hotel where I managed to get another shot when trees were not on my mind.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nXDtpPjeBxY/Tky4u0v7cpI/AAAAAAAAECY/9EC8eTvB8Bo/s512/Tresco%252520056.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nXDtpPjeBxY/Tky4u0v7cpI/AAAAAAAAECY/9EC8eTvB8Bo/s400/Tresco%252520056.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="300" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Block House Point from Old Grimsby</strong></span></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The next land to the west of the Scillies is North America. That gives me an excuse to finish with a shot of Sam. my daughter's late dog, out in the woods and the snow. </span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <table class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VxXHpoGJGw/SoRbGQnONdI/AAAAAAAAARo/ZXYxHE3nWJM/s512/Sam%252520Dec%25252006.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VxXHpoGJGw/SoRbGQnONdI/AAAAAAAAARo/ZXYxHE3nWJM/s400/Sam%252520Dec%25252006.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="188" /></a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Sam in the winter woods</strong></span></span></td> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></span></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Robert Frost had an approriate name for a for his poem <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-2/">Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening </a>which ends:</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I have promises to keep,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">And miles to go before I sleep,</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">And miles to go before I sleep.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before you sleep take a look at other trees at <a href="http://sepiasaturday.blogspot.com/2011/08/sepia-saturday-88-saturday-20-august.html">Sepia Saturday</a></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <span class="mceItemObject" classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </span> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>His words flew through the air with the greatest of ease fifty years ago today, as the daring man was inaugurated as the youngest elected President of the United States of America. His speech that day has been rated as one of the great speeches of the twentieth century.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>&ldquo;Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.&rdquo; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>These are the words that everyone remembers from the speech of the first Roman Catholic and the first man born in the twentieth century to become President. He was only the second man in American history to take over while both his parents were living; he took over from the then oldest American Chief Executive.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>That inaugural speech may not have been Kennedy&rsquo;s best; some say that was his American University commencement address in June 1963 when he called for the re-examination of the cold war, the country&rsquo;s relationship with Russia and the meaning of peace. This was after he had unilaterally declared a suspension of American nuclear testing in the atmosphere.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Most important historically was his televised address on October 22 1962 revealing the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, a mere 90 miles from US shores and in which he set out his response for the withdrawal of the missiles.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>In his inaugural address where he set out his vision he included some prophetic words: &ldquo;All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days&hellip;&rdquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>On November 22 1963, barely past that 1000 days Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald&rsquo;s bullets as his motorcade drove through Dallas. The youngest man to be elected he was the youngest to die, aged 46.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 150%;" align="center"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>*****</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Kennedy&rsquo;s inauguration did not go as planned. The President-elect was late &ndash; so many people wanted to shake his hand. Then as Cardinal Cushing gave the invocation a short-circuit from a space heater sent wisps of smoke above his lectern before men scurried to put it out.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Kennedy had invited Robert Frost to write a poem for the inauguration. Although it was a bitterly cold day, the blinding sun meant that the 86-year-old Frost was unable to read the typed copy of the poem he had written. Instead Frost ended up reciting his poem, &lsquo;A Gift Outright&rsquo;, from memory, beginning with the line:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>&lsquo;The land was ours before we were the land&rsquo;s.&rsquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Kennedy quoted in return from the last stanza of Frost&rsquo;s &lsquo;Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:&rsquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>&lsquo;&hellip;. But I have promises to keep,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>And miles to go before I sleep,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 47.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>And miles to go before I sleep.&rsquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Frost&rsquo;s original poem went missing until 2006 when an envelope arrived at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. The archivist noticed some pencilled writing on the poem. It proved to be by Jacqueline Kennedy to her husband and read, &ldquo;For Jack, First thing I had framed to put in your office &ndash; first thing to be hung there.&rdquo;</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The poem had been in someone&rsquo;s private collection for years. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>[Lancer was JFK&rsquo;s Secret Service Code Name]</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%;"><em>This was written and posted on 20th January, the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's inauguration<br /></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 27pt; line-height: 150%; padding-left: 30px;">&nbsp;</p>