Monday, May 5, 2008
Beijing
One of the things Holly pointed out yesterday was a system of tagging ancient trees with metal plaques that identify them by age. You can imagine how many of these tags are scattered around in a garden that’s existed for over 600 years. The two that seemed to be everywhere were green (100-300 years old) and red (300+ years old)—mostly the latter of the two.
If only we westerners valued age as much as the easterners do. In so many ways.
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