Photo-Blog Hans-Josef Jeanrond

Les arbres protecteurs

Protecting trees

Schützende Bäume

December 2007
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Driving, cycling, and hiking through the countryside of the Var, you often see trees planted next to sheds in the fields (and next to houses, of course). Some of these sheds are very small, most of them very old, and one wonders why it should be so important to have big trees so close to them, trees that sometimes seem to crush the sheds.