Chestnut Tree Conker Kastanie Kastanienbaum Sommer Summer Nature Natur

chestnut trees are in bloom...that is all one smells around our house.

The 1st World War Memorial in Elne is unusual in that it uses an adaption of an existing sculpture by Maillol. "La Pomone" is Pomona the Roman Goddess of Plenty. Here, for Maillol, she stands for the universal woman and her promise of maternity which represents all mothers. It is notable that many French 1st World War memorials emphasise the suffering of the grieving women/mothers rather than the heroism of those who died.

Yesterday I posted a photo of a beautiful chestnut tree, framing a house at Long Hill Gardens. It is hard to convey in a photograph the size of this great tree, and how it feels to stand under it. But here's another try. Tonight I cropped the original photograph to get this composition. You can get a glimpse of the house through the leaves.

Chestnut tree at the lakeshore of Lake Constance - for my A Photo A Week - set

Toby and Heidi

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Tall narrow houses dated annum 1722 in Utrecht the city in province of Utrecht in the Netherlands ; Utrecht de stadt in the provincie Utrecht in Nederland , Martin’s photographs , May 6. 2004

St. Martin Cathedral or Dom Church is a Gothic church dedicated to Saint Martin

St. Martin Cathedral in Utrecht

View at a beautiful statue while standing below the Dom Toren

Standing below the Dom Toren in Utrecht

Bikes

Bridge

Bikes on a bridge in Utrecht

Utrecht

The Dom Tower

Dom Toren

the Dom Tower 112.5 meter high or 369.1 ft high

Dom Plein

Dom Square

Utrecht de stadt

Utrecht the city

Province of Utrecht in the Netherlands

Nederland

May 2004

Beautiful street in Utrecht

Wisterias trailing from a bridge railings

Wisterias

Bridge railings

Statue

A bridge with rod iron railings

blooming Chestnut trees

gracht with stairs going down

Chestnut trees

A bridge with rod iron railings across the canal

blooming Chestnut trees on both sides of the canal -

gracht with stairs going down from the street level

Street lights

Brick road

Street lights lined brick road

old buildings with towers in Utrecht

Tall houses in Utrecht

Tall houses

Annum 1722

Tall narrow house dated annum 1722

Cropped photograph

IPhone XR

Trees

Blue sky

Martin’s photographs

IPhone 6

Provincial park

Favourites

stones

Trees

photograph converted to black and white

photograph converted to black and white using Flickr Litho filter

Photograph converted to black and white using Flickr Greyed filter

Black and white photograph

Black and white

Monochrome

Flickr Litho filter

Flickr Greyed filter

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel

Digital Rebel

Canon

EOS 300D Digital Rebel

Canon PowerShot SD600

PowerShot SD600

the falling leaves in the setting sun

my favourite twisty gnarly chestnut trees near Herstmonceux Castle

Chestnut tree in Kressbronn at the shore of Lake Constance in Germany. For the Photo-A-Week-Project.

Kastanienbaum in einem kleinen Park am Bodenseeufer in Kressbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Château d'Hougoumont

Braine-l'Alleud,Belgium

Chestnut Tree Conker Kastanie Kastanienbaum Sommer Summer Nature Natur

Im Garten meiner Großeltern, direkt vor dem Küchenfenster, stand immer ein großer Kastanienbaum. Dieser regte mich förmlich zum Klettern an mit seinen kletterfreundlich angeordneten Zweigen. So gelang es mir bis hoch in die Krone zu steigen zum Argwohn meiner Großmutter. Ihre Sorge galt aber

weniger mir, sondern ihrem Kastanienbaum, oder doch mir, aber sie übertrug ihre Fürsorge dem Kastanienbaum. Dann ging das Küchfenster einen kleinen Spalt auf und sie rief, ich solle doch nicht im Kastanienbaum klettern, ich würde alle Äste abbrechen und somit würde er nicht mehr so schön blühen.

Sie schaute selbst zum Zeitpunkt, da sie genau wußte, ich könne nicht in ihm sitzen.

Als meine Großmutter dann sehr krank wurde und nie wieder ihren Garten betreten konnte, saß sie an besagtem Küchfenster mit einer Tasse Milch auf der Fensterbank und bewachte ihren Kastanienbaum und meine Mutter hörte ihr rufen: "Magret! Das Kind sitzt schon wieder im Baum und bricht die Zweige ab!" Im Kastanienbaum saßen aber lediglich die Vögel.

*in Erinnerung an meine Oma Hanna (Johanne Wißmann)

Efecto de los rayos del sol entre las ramas y el humo de la quema de los erizos (las cáscaras espinosas de las castañas).

Effect of the rays of the sun between the branches and the smoke of the burning of the "hedgehogs" (the thorny husks of the chestnuts).

Chestnut Tree Conker Kastanie Kastanienbaum Sommer Summer Nature Natur

Shadows under a chestnut tree.

Foto Nr 43 für mein Ein-Foto-pro-Woche-Set von diesem wunderschönen Platz in Kressbronn am Bodenseeufer.

Shot Nr 43 for my A-Photo-A-Week-Set of this wonderful place at the shore of Lake Constance in Kressbronn, Germany.

Horse chestnut flowers found on a walk in Charnwood, Leicestershire

EARL NEIKIRK/BRISTOL HERALD COURIER

George Price helps his daughters Quinn Price,5, left, and Phoebe Price,8, place potting soil into the holes dug for the 100 Chestnut Trees being planted at the Veteran's Memorial Park in Abingdon on Friday.

Panorama of the chestnut tree across the road from our house with the sun peeking through the leaves in the late afternoon. Color/processing variant.

Hiking in the Serra de Monchique

Blogged:

www.heartfelt.co.nz/my_weblog/2012/04/sweet-chestnuts.html

Chestnut Tree Conker Kastanie Kastanienbaum Sommer Summer Nature Natur

Samels Farm is located just outside of Traverse City, Michigan in the town of Williamsburg. The site has been declared a Pioneer Farm, meaning that the original families have maintained continuous ownership of the property for at least 100 years. Samels Farm has also been placed on the National Register of Historic Places due to the numerous Native American artifacts discovered from several unique cultures - some dating back to 9000 B. C.

The farm has four old-growth chestnut trees, which are rare in Northern Michigan due to the chestnut blight, and are used to harvest chestnuts and create unique chestnut wood gifts that are used to fund the Heritage Society's preservation efforts.

Samels' Farm

8298 Skegemog Point Road

Williamsburg, MI

49690

Tree in Kressbronn at the shore of Lake Constance - taken for my A-Photo-A-Week-Set, week 59

Kastanie in Kressbronn am Bodenseeufer - 59.Woche

Went out for a lovely walk this afternoon; the sun was shining and the sky was blue. Although Milton Keynes is a modern city, where glass and concrete prevail, we are also extremely lucky to have some wonderful parkland areas where nature is at its best.

Križevci, "measuring" the huge, 700 years old chestnut tree. Photo: Jasmina Pogačnik. October 15th, 2011.