I’ve never taken part in “Macro Monday” previously. In fact, I just found out about it a couple weeks ago. But I just can’t resist participating with a couple close-ups of my beautiful Blue Spruce Tree. I do love this tree and have raised it from the time it was about 5 feet tall. It had been stuck in an old wooden barrel beneath a large tree and was struggling to lean over sideways to get sunshine. I rescued it and gave it a home in my front yard. With a good strong metal pole to support it for the next couple of years, it straightened itself out and reached for the sun in a perfectly vertical direction. It now proudly stands somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 feet tall and 45 feet around.
Every spring I am thrilled anew at the process of brand new life that bursts forth from every branch of this beautiful masterpiece of God’s creation.This past spring, I photographed every step of it’s new growth — from first bud stage to full plumage — and created a slide show with those photos. I’ll share a couple of those shots here for Macro Monday.
Thanks to Lisa Chaos for offering this photo challenge. You can find out the details and take part as well by visiting her site: http://lisaschaos.com/
The Happy Wordcrafter 
I love Big Blue, great shots.
Thanks, Gilly. You know, I’m honestly not a tree-worshiper at all, but I feel like I have some kind of special kinship with Big Blue.
So pretty!
Thank you.
I love it – we have a huge maple (prolly 30+ feet tall) that I have now decided to name Ol’ Yeller in the fall – all because I read this post! It’s my favorite tree on the entire 5 acres, and I’m so thankful it’s so close to the house. We only have one of those beautiful Big Blues, but it’s farther away from the house and I don’t get to that part of the property as often.
I’m so glad the article was an inspiration. I told one of the other readers that I honestly am not a “tree-worshiper,” but I do seem to have this special relationship with my Blue Spruce tree. For one thing, I genuinely believe the Lord worked it out for me to get the tree in the first place because He knew I loved them. And, of course, the fact that it came from a rather shabby and difficult beginning adds to my desire to see it keep growing and living a very long, healthy life. I used to decorate it every year at Christmas, and it was the envy of the neighborhood, but now that it’s so big, I would have to rent a crane to put everything on it, and I just can’t do that.
😆 somehow the visual of a crane lifting a person up to decorate a tree makes me smile. Now, THAT would be a dedicated decorator!! I can’t even get up the energy to decorate one my own height (5’3″)! 😆
There’s a man who lives right on the southernmost edge of my town who has a tree that stands way above all the electric poles, telephone polls, antennas, and everything else in sight. It’s fairly narrow around, and I don’t know it’s exact height this year, but it’s definitely the tallest evergreen I’ve ever seen. He gets a crane to do his lights every year. He decorates it in all blue lights, and it is gorgeous. He’s done it for so many years now that it has become a tradition.
I’d be out there with my camera for that!