The Carmel Forest around the port city of Haifa, normally rolling hills carpeted in pine, was an apocalyptic scene, with rows of blazing trees, the sky crimson from flames soaring dozens of feet, and embers flying for miles, smacking the car windshields on nearby roads.
Yet the blazing tree remains alight.
Helicopters, sometimes five at a time, converged on blazing Joshua trees and creosote.
Another, the famous "Tree of Light or Blazing Tree" (1845), shows us a vision seen in a dream: a tree with each leaf embroidered with fire, part of the normal Shaker iconography of the tree of life but also alarming in its overcharged richness.
The beech trees blazed with the golden orange and copper hues of an autumn sunset but beneath the canopy the dense shade cast by the leaves had left the woodland floor impoverished.
It was reported you even blazed a few trees of weed.
The young men of the CCC planted trees, blazed new trails, built roads and bridges, and fought fires, which continued to be a problem.
Quite suddenly, when Jordan came to the third bulb from the end, the whole tree blazed into light.
Stands of Japanese maples, sweet gum and other trees blaze with color (peak viewing time is late October to late November).
It's December in the City, and you know what that means: sky-high Christmas trees, blazing Menorah's, endless holiday parties and, good lord, I hope that Christmas bonus comes before the end of the holiday sales event.
We left reluctantly for a nightcap on the Place Louis XIV, which was full of young lovers walking arm-in-arm, but stopping at intervals to embrace under trees blazing with lights of every color.
