{"id":12423,"date":"2019-10-02T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12423"},"modified":"2019-10-02T21:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T02:34:57","slug":"skywatch-friday-talking-leaves-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12423","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; Talking Leaves Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/48829594503\/\" title=\"Talking Leaves Tree by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/31337\/48829594503_3abbbb26d5_c.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Talking Leaves Tree\"><\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I visited the Gilcrease Museum here in Tulsa earlier this week. They have a lot of nice exhibits going on but what really struck my eye was a great big cottonwood tree right outside a giant window that was shimmering in the wind so I made a brief video of it and posted it on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/frLXKu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3690\/9480679622_c6f056a5d7_z.jpg\" alt=\"#cottonwood #trees # Flandreau #southdakota #geocaching\" width=\"612\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Cottonwood in South Dakota<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A cousin from South Dakota told me that she thought the Lakota Tribe called the cottonwood, the Tree of Talking Leaves. I have googled a lot and have not been able to confirm that that is true but have found a lot of references that the tribe holds the tree sacred and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"represents a magical time of hope, healing, and  transformation (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/treespiritwisdom.com\/major-arcana\/xvii-cottonwood-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">represents a magical time of hope, healing, and  transformation<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2gh2NFa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48095460127_59a58bab9e.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN9553\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Cottonwoods in Tulsa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always liked cottonwood trees but never much thought about them until my cousin&#8217;s remark and then I thought, you know I have lived all over the west, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico and they all have cottonwood trees. I think they may be a symbol of the west, where the west includes the midwest.  I just love seeing and hearing their leaves when the wind is blowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late in life, the Cottonwood is now the Talking Leaves Tree to me as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Skywatch Friday (opens in a new tab)\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited the Gilcrease Museum here in Tulsa earlier this week. They have a lot of nice exhibits going on but what really struck my eye was a great big cottonwood tree right outside a giant window that was shimmering in the wind so I made a brief video of it and posted it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1271,1530],"class_list":["post-12423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-skywatch-friday","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12424,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12423\/revisions\/12424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}