The willows growing on the sand dunes send up thickets of vertical stems.  Their catkins and leaves are long and narrow too, with a tendency to head skyward.  Seen next to the stark vertical lines of the old factory chimney the willows look not so much vertical as upright and gently curved.  That’s true of the vertical lines of many plants, whether closed spaced tree trunks, spear-shaped leaves or towering flower spikes.  In nature ‘vertical’ is a sense of direction rather than a mathematical certainty. .

 

Fountains echo the vertical lines of tall cypress trees at the Villa d’Este – April 2018
The towering spires of Veronicastrum at Floors Castle – July 2019
White foxgloves in our garden – June 2019
Irises and iron railings – Giardino Boboli – April 2018
The slightly sinuous verticals of beech trunks on the Hirsel estate – November 2019
And almost vertical pine trunks on the Black Isle – May 2019

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Jude’s 2020 Photo Challenge #15 is Being Creative with Lines, moving on the week to Vertical.