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Ash 12 1/4th inch.
Handmade with locally sourced, naturally aged Ash with an hand-rubbed linseed oil finish.
(Fraxinus americana) The wood is white and quite dense, strong, and straight-grained. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also meant "spear" in their respective languages. In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree. Elsewhere in Europe, snakes were said to be repelled by ash leaves or a circle drawn by an ash branch. Irish folklore claims that shadows from an ash tree would damage crops. In Cheshire, it was said that ash could be used to cure warts or rickets. It is the timber of choice for production of baseball bats and tool handles. The wood is also favorable for furniture and flooring. It makes a very serviceable longbow if properly worked.
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Ashness Bridge, near Keswick, Cumbria. Just south of Derwent Water.
Mini tripod used.
12th September 2006
White Ash - Fraxinus americana (female tree of this dioecious species)
I did a series to document the ID of this species, which can be a little confounding, at least to me. This tree was found with samaras in a suburban woodlot in Durham NC (USA). Soil is hydric to mesic at that location. The other species to be expected in this area is Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica). Characters I see indicating Fraxinus americana vs. pennsylvanica are:
- leaves whitish (glaucous) beneath, "minutely honeycombed-reticulate" at high magnification (Weakley); with "dense minute rounded projections" (Duncan and Duncan)
- bud sits within the U-shaped scar, i.e., upper edge of leaf scars deeply notched, i.e., "petiole bases and leaf scars V- to U- or crescent-shaped with a deeply concave or notched upper margin" (Weakley and most references, but a variable character!)
- terminal buds obtuse, with 4-6 brownish scales (Duncan and Duncan)
- "samaras 25-32 mm long, samara wings 3-5 mm wide, samara bodies (5-) 6-11 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide; twigs, petioles, petiolules, and rachises glabrous" (Weakley)
References
- Carolina Nature (Will Cook) www.carolinanature.com/trees/fram.html
- Duncan and Duncan, Trees of the Southeastern United States (Univ. Georgia Press, 1988), p. 57-59, plates 45, 47
- Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (UNC Herbarium, 2020), p. 1291
February 17, 2010 is Ash Wednesday
For the Western Christian calendar, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days (forty days not counting Sundays) before Easter. It is a moveable feast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as 4 February or as late as 10 March.
Ash Wednesday gets its name from the practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of the faithful as a sign of repentance. The ashes used are gathered after the Palm Crosses from the previous year's Palm Sunday are burned. In the liturgical practice of some churches, the ashes are mixed with the Oil of the Catechumens[1] (one of the sacred oils used to anoint those about to be baptized), though some churches use ordinary oil. This paste is used by the minister who presides at the service to make the sign of the cross, first upon his or her own forehead and then on those of congregants. The minister recites the words: "Remember (O man) that you are dust, and to dust you shall return", or "Repent, and believe the Gospel."
From a recent trip to the ash area here in Iceland. It's amazing what the volcano has left behind...
Nokkur orð --> www.tomz.se/blog/2010/05/30/aska/
Canon 1Ds Mark III + Canon TS-E 45mm F/2.8
Im not shure what it is, but by the looks of it, it looks ashy and it has a box so I called it Ash Box.
5.4 million cubic yards of damp ash broke loose last December 22nd at TVA's Kingston plant, between Kingston and Harriman, TN. Only earthen and ash walls, estimated at 8 stories tall, held back the destructive sludge, and when they gave way, the ash cascaded onto a neighborhood, the Emory River and about 300 acres of fields and woods.
Who knows how long the cleanup will continue.
Mass for Ash Wednesday, celebrated at the Chapel of Our Lady of Wisdom in New Tolouse
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