[16] Today’s prompt is Damage
Journal a tree showing damage or injury such as cuts, weeps, or seeps. Is there a tree who has suffered bad pruning?

Seeing damage is never easy, never simple. There are so many risks to life and limb, and the Dragon Tree has survived so much damage. Despite it all, the tree resists, continues to leaf, continues to grow. A lesson for our times I think: stress, destruction, and damage can be resisted with a ferocious beauty.

Featured tree: The Dragon Tree of Albany Hill ~ Arroyo Willow ~ Salix lasiolepis

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#ArborApril2025 is a combo challenge with #NatureJournalingApril, a month-long sketching & journaling challenge hosted by Cathy Raingarden, Kate Rutter, and the Wild Wonder Foundation. Each day in April, create a page in your sketchbook or nature journal based on the daily prompt from the prompt list. If you post on social media, use hashtags #ArborApril2025 and #NatureJournalingApril.

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