I think of it as relaxing my eyes. A tree can be overwhelming to study: it fills your field of view with a deceptively complex image. In early spring an ornamental plum or cherry gives you thousands of small, pink flowers, each with a dark center, and each casting small shadows on its neighbors. The individual branches each sway slightly differently in …
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