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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An oak and the pine trees. Cotswold Way, Lansdown Hill, near Bath. BANES, England, UK.
Little colour left in the woods. Only few young oak trees stood out on a foggy November day in their attractive rusty yellow-orange foliage. Primrose Hill Community Woodland was planted in 2000 with many native trees and bushes such as Common ash and oak, beach, alder; and many others. Bath, BANES, England, UK.
Macro Mondays – The First Letter of My Name.
For this week’s Macro Mondays theme of The First Letter of My Name, I have chosen Acorns.
The light for the image is from a large window at camera left, and a large diffusion panel. To camera right is a large gold reflector.
Or as this is an English Oak, ' Ye Olde Oake' 😃. Taken during a lovely walk in our local park, a few days ago. I hope you like it !
~Edited slightly in Topaz Studio~
Thanks for looking my Flickr friends. Every view and fave is deeply appreciated.
Pendunculate Oak or English Oak (Quercus robur)
10 October 2018
Cuttle Pool Nature Reserve, Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, Temple Balsall
In many cultures and folklore, the oak tree (Quercus robur) is the symbol of strength, endurance and wisdom. The beech tree (Fagus sylvatica) symbolises femininity and is associated with wisdom and knowledge. Smooth bark of beech trees was used for writing believing that it will carry the words to gods. Both trees belong to the Fagus family (Fagaceae). In Celtic mythology, Fagus was the god of beech trees, and the oak and the beech were and are considered as the Father and the Mother of the forest or the King and the Queen of the trees.
The two silhouettes show nicely the beauty and the difference in appearance between these two magnificent trees which would not be that obvious when covered with leaves. Old Arboretum. Westonbirt Arboretum near Tetbury, South Gloucestershire, England, UK.
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Sunset on Weavers Way after a fine Sunday afternoon. Weavers Way is a 61 mile long distance footpath, in part along the remains of a disused railway, which was operated by the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and closed in 1959.
Schlosspark Sacrow, Brandenburg
Historic english oak near Potsdam, Germany. It's in good health and estimated to be more than 400 years old.
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Una quercia monumentale nei pressi di Potsdam, Germania. È viva e vegeta e si stima abbia circa 400 anni.
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Contrasting silhouettes of an old and wrinkly Silver birch (Betula pendula) and two young oaks (Quercus robur) on a foggy day. Taken on Bushey Norwood next to the University of Bath grounds. Bushey Norwood is the part of the Bath Skyline National Trust circular walk popular amongst visitors of Bath. Claverton, BANES, England, U.K.
Last acorn (nut of common oak, Quercus robur) still on a tree.
Ostatnia żołądź (orzech dębu szypułkowego, Quercus robur) ciągle na drzewie.
Acorn of a common oak (Quercus robus), already fallen from the tree.
Żołądź dębu szypułkowego (Quercus robur), już spadły z drzewa.
The Gothic Room was the opulent smoking room of the SS City of Detroit III, a side-wheeler steamboat built in 1911 that toured the Great Lakes. De-commissioned in 1950, "The Gothic Room" was removed, and eventually restored as the entrance to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River.
The room is a marvel of dark-stained, intricately-carved English oak. As shown in the picture, when entering the museum, the first view is of the grand stained glass wall inscribed "The French Led By LaSalle Discover Detroit"
(Note: Being tired of seeing pictures of destruction and decay of Detroit in the media (and Flickr), I've decided to highlight some unique and grand structures in Detroit.)
Unripe acorns of common oak (Quercus robur).
Niedojrzałe żołędzie dębu szypułkowego (Quercus robur).
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
Back in 1993 I successfully grew an English Oak tree from an Acorn (seed of the Oak). I planted it on the edge of my Larch forest and all these years later it stands nearly 8M high and produces its own Acorns that ripen and then drop down onto the soft bed of fallen Autumn leaves below it. Its seed provides much needed food for hungry creatures gathering winter stores and makes a great Autumn themed photograph :-)
Dedicated to CH (ILYWAMHASAM)
Old oak tree on farmland along the Weaver's Way near North Walsham. Plans are mooted to build 1,800 homes in the vicinity. Young people need homes, but it is a shame they have to build on green land rather than a brown field site.
I think it's quercus robur. I could always be wrong. In the UK they call it "English oak" in Germany "Deutsche Eiche" (German oak) (and more neutral "Stieleiche" while "Stiel" is no country it means peduncle. France is full of quercus robur too but they don't call it French oak.
Us Plebs can sit on a Wooden Throne in front of Richmond's Mighty 750 Year Old "Royal Oak Tree"...and wonder if King Charles 1st ever stood in this very spot after he moved to the Palace of Richmond some 400 Years ago
Happy Bench Monday
Richmond Park. Greater London. England. U.K.
English oak is the most common species in the UK, especially in southern and central broadleaf woodland.
Also called pedunculate or common oak, it is a deciduous tree which can grow to 40m in height and can live for more than a thousand years.The distinctively shaped leaves measure up to 10cm in length when mature, with four or ve deep lobes and smooth edges. The leaves have almost no stem. The fruit, acorns, are produced in autumn; they are 2-2.5cm long and sit on stalks.
Whitby Park Ellesmere Port Cheshire