The beech tree is in Much Wenlock’s Linden Field ~ the place where the modern Olympic Movement had its beginnings in 1850
And every July the Wenlock Olympian Games are still held on and around the Linden Field and at the adjacent William Penny Brookes School, which is fittingly named after the Games’ founder.
Tish Farrell 
You’ve certainly captured lovely copper tones in your photos. Is the copper beech the odd one out in the Linden Field?
No there seems to be another much older one, sneaked in among the lime trees.
Gorgeous!
And a bench for Jude! 🙂 🙂 I love standing beneath them and watching the sun shimmer through. There are a couple of big ones in the park I walk through to zumba. Didn’t have time to linger this morning so thank you for sharing.
Happy to share my beech leafery with you, Jo 🙂
what pretty scenes
A copper beech is the perfect and most beautiful tree for looking out from beneath the leaves.
🙂
Stunning artwork indeed.
Thank you, Ron 🙂
I love looking up or out from inside a tree, and love your photos. Are there different types of copper beech? I mean different grades of colour? Stevie lived in a rental house for a while which had a really dark mahogany beech which was gorgeous. I wouldn’t want in a garden because it was huge, but it was a very special tree!
The tree I was under was a fairly young one and the leaves seemed on the pale side of copper to me. But then they had just puffed themselves up. There must be different species. I shall have to find out now 🙂
Life’s a Beech?
Oh you!
By now you must know me.
I never miss an opporunitree,
And thus, I could not leaf it be,
🙂
One might start feeling inclined to slap your legs!
What a peaceful scene to peer out at and sit on that bench and think of all the history that has taken place there
It’s a good corner. Lots of bird call and leaf rustling.
I once fell in love with a giant, ancient copper beech. I think it was on Martha’s Vineyard, but I could be mistaken. Sitting under the tree, I absolutely KNEW that all was right with the world. It was the biggest tree of that kind I’ve ever seen and it was in the middle of the Town Common. I hope it’s still there today.
Trees bring great solace, don’t they. Magnanimous beings, considering the way we often treat them.
How beautiful the Beech leaves and the great large canopies of the Beech tree. A lovely post with amazing photos.
Thank you 🙂
Beautiful!
Thank you, Angela
gorgeous pictures
Nothing like looking up through leaves. Love that copper sheen.
I’m fancying a tree house 🙂