Peace meeting - healing hearts

Peace meeting on Thursday 31st May 2 - 4 p.m.
 Please use left hand entrance and sign in the book. All welcome
Community/conference room Co-operative funeral care centre, Fairway, Sandown

Submissions to the 'Dear Tree' project can be handed in on the day.
The optional activity will making fabric 'healing hearts'. Materials will be available but if you have fabric that is special to you that you are happy to make into a heart (appx. size of your palm) please bring it along. Two pieces will be stitched together and filled with a little stuffing.

1,000 Crane mandala April - May

Mandala making in progress and finished result

Tree time at Appley Park

Celebrating greenery day

On a cold, dismal day we found a dry spot in Appley park to sit. A majestic oak sheltered us beneath its canopy, where we nibbled dates and crackers, all around were other trees sporting their new greenery, the trunk of the tree and the ground around its roots gave off a cosy warmth. We listened to the chimes of St. Cecilia's bells and wondered what occassion they were marking. Observed a starling feeding its young up above in the crook of a branch, and caught the magic of swallows dipping and diving overhead. We made our way back, careful not to tread on the newly opened purple orchids flowering in the grass. Back to pavements along Ryde Esplanade clouds of stocks scented the air in the park display, newly laid paving, the colour of golden sand gave the impression you were on the beach. Lime trees sported tender morsels of transluscent leaves, rolled fine as filo pastry sheets in palest green. Delicious greenery day.

May eye

Join in - special trees

 'Dear Tree' project

Is there a tree that's special to you (past or present)? Perhaps you pass it on the corner of your road, or collect conkers from it in the Autumn, maybe you just enjoy its shade in summer.

Tell the tree how you feel about it by sending in any of the following:-

photo of the tree
letter
poem
picture
song

Please include the following: Location of the tree, your name (optional), your contact details (optional)

Send them/hand them in to Ryde Library in an envelope marked 'Dear Tree' project. Or submit them online at:-
treeproject@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you for taking time to celebrate trees

Please note we are unable to return items sent in

Look out for the 'Dear Tree' display later in the year in Ryde library