Donal Hickey: Aren’t the trees just terrific?

Picture: Denis Minihane.

MAYBE it’s just because there’s more time to stand back and observe during the coronavirus crisis, but am I the only person who thinks our trees never looked better than they do this year? You can use all the superlatives — awesome, breath-taking or even stupendous — to describe them and there wouldn’t be any exaggeration.

The words of the late, lamented Dick Warner, whose work graced this page for many years, come to mind. About trees, he said: ‘We are looking at a living thing that’s far, far older than we are and that creates respect’.