Barbara Hart Radisavljevic
Every autumn I can look across the street and see a huge oak tree. It’s probably the most special oak tree in my life right now, and I have a lot of favorite oak trees. If I walk across the street during fall, I have to be careful not to step on one of these acorn children of the oak and fall myself. If you step on acorns, they can roll.
These little acorns came from this mother oak tree across the street. If they sprout and become trees, they will look a lot like their mother.
These little acorns will, of course, grow into huge oak  trees if given the right conditions. They would need to land in soil and it would need to  rain enough to keep the ground wet enough for these acorns to sprout. On my land in Templeton, and all around my neighborhood here in Paso Robles, little acorns have turned into trees every year. In fact, so many of them become trees that we have to pull them like weeds when they don’t have enough room to grow without causing problems.
Here is a view of the mother tree from a different angle, taken in spring, when it is beginning to leaf out.
Below you see a child of this oak that grew from an acorn and somehow landed in my backyard rose garden.
I never cease to marvel that something so small as an acorn can become as large as its oak tree mother. Only God can make an oak that makes acorns that make more oaks. Below you see it at sundown, bare, in January.
I took all the photos. © B. Radisavljevic, all rights reserved.
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And if we want to plant something on purpose, it won’t grow! Stunning pictures!
That has proved to be very true in my case when I plant seeds outside. Ironic, isn’t it? I guess God knows more about when and where to plant them.
What a beautiful and strong tree and who’d have ever guessed that these trees come from such a small seed. Wonderful post.
I marvel every time I see that magnificent oak and think it began as one of those small acorns.
The oak tree is very beautiful, so does your photos. Your writing about natural wonders is also very inspiring.
I think anything that grows is a natural wonder, but I like some natural wonders better than others.
Nature itself is a miracle, and we are in it.
What a privilege that is!
Yep! Such is nature and us.
Too often we can pass a great oak and admire it while missing the potential oak forest that lies beneath it, just waiting for space to come into being.
Oh my goodness. That last photo is surreal. All of them are great but the last one got me!
A fantastic tree.
Thank you, Carol. I’m glad I added it. I previously published this on Niume, then edited it for here and added that last photo because I thought it made for a nice conclusion. I probably have hundreds of photos of this oak, since it lives across the street from me and I often use it as half my frame for my sunsets.
You made the right decision, it is definitely surreal. I love the old oak trees.
I agree. Oak trees are special.
Wow, what a great set of photographs. I love them all, and its amazing to see the little ones. Great silhouette at the end!
When you live across the street from a mature oak, you see a lot of little ones, usually in your flower beds. I just found one last night next to my birch tree sticking out over the tops of the tall grasses I haven’t cut yet. It’s almost a yard high. I’ll need to remove it while I still can.
It does not look like our conception. This is how life is maintained through seeds. Small acorns perform this function for large oak trees.
It’s always a miracle to me that deep in the heart of a seed is a small plant just waiting for the right conditions to sprout and grow. God made it so.
beautiful pictures, nature and God give wonderful things, from a small grain, becomes a big tree of oak
Thank you. God does work through nature to do amazing things.
Amazing pictures! From little acorns mighty oaks grow! Love the pictures!
I think Virily ate my first reply so I’m trying again. Little acorns have great potential. I think that’s the point of the saying you quoted. I almost used it as my title. We all have great potential, no matter our station in life. A small idea can also become a great invention.
I love the pictures. Reminds me of growing up on my dad’s mini-farm.
My dad had a Victory Garden in our large backyard. We had chickens, fruit trees, and, of course, vegetables and berries. It was like a paradise for me.
wow, our dad’s sound very similar. My dad was a Science Educator and he dreamed of creating sustainable farming. We had berries, grapes, pigs, chickens, cows, apple, pear and nut trees.
Growing up all I remember is working 🙂