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Celebrating tree growth and tree Tuesdays everyday! A joy for me to see. (I wandered around this year to view, but without a camera.)
"The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae. It is native to western North America and is also known as Douglas-fir, Douglas spruce, Oregon pine, and Columbian pine. There are three varieties: coast Douglas-fir (P. menziesii var. menziesii), Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir (P. menziesii var. glauca) and Mexican Douglas-fir (P. menziesii var. lindleyana)."
~Wikipedia
Taken by my spouse with his 200mm macro and old D4. After my accident with that remarkable lens--and repairs by Nikon are good, but I almost could have purchased a new one for the same price--I do not borrow this rather dear lens.
Slight crop. Maple tree that we did not have planted.
"In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth, or back into safety." - Abraham Maslow
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
Quote ― Roy T. Bennett
Transforming this mushroom-image, into this one. It was fun ;-))
HSS everyone!
Getting up one very frosty morning, I found this amazing structure about 2 inches high, growing from the birdbath. Completely round it looks like a frozen tornado, or whirlpool.
I'm enjoying seeing the new growth in my wife's garden, including the grape hyacinths springing up through the ivy.
I took this photo in the middle of last month. It is one of my yellow hibiscus flowers. As Autumn was encroaching they were trying desperately to flower but the colder nights were stopping them in their tracks and this is as far as they got. Plus, the yellow colour of them was coming out more like orange. I like their shape (& colour) despite the stunted growth
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This old silo near tiny Paynes Point IL. has become a planter pot for a young tree. Not the first time I have seen this, but no less cool....
Don't you just hate it when your vegetables go feral!
(Shot in natural light on the lid of our printer)
HCT!
Yeah, it caught my eyes when I strolling in btw these two medical buildings near me (my 3 doctors practice there), where is about 5 minutes away. During the lockdown, I go there a lot, not only hardly a soul seen there, but also with at least 30 flowering trees in bloom now, like I found my peaceful place to photography, and even take a walk. :-))
I will be honest when I say this image was not planned out, nor was much time taken over shooting it.
But there is something about how it captures the melancholy dusk feeling, and draws your eye back into the tower shapes in the background mirroring the foreground which I found very interesting, and wanted to share.
Sax-Zim Bog is renowned for the rare birds that can be found in this barren and brutal bog country during the winter. Old growth black spruce and tamarack trees are mixed in with grassy meadows across 150,000 acres of marshy bog habitat which is a sanctuary for secretive birds like the great gray owl and mammals like the gray wolf.
My friend had been right to reproach me, from the minute i set foot on this magnificent forest, I knew this was my kind of environment.
The Muir Woods National Monument is an old-growth coastal redwood forest. Due to its proximity to the Pacific Ocean, the forest is regularly shrouded in a coastal marine layer fog, contributing to a wet environment that encourages vigorous plant growth. The fog is also vital for the growth of the redwoods as they use moisture from the fog during drought seasons, and in particular the dry summer months.
Wood, ah tree,
tell me what moves
you, the bark gone
and color painted by
algae of fungi
the soft parts eaten
my bugs or ants.
Forest fires and the resulting smoke have been a big deal in Canada since early spring and we certainly encountered it on our recent trip west - having to change plans because of road closures and contending with a smoky haze that irritated the lungs and made us and everything in the car smell like a campfire. It was particularly bad in British Columbia's Thompson Valley and Ontario - extending all the way from Kenora in the north down to Toronto and across the border into the US.
This image is from the west coast of Vancouver Island - the furthest point we were able to go. A couple of things attracted me to this scene - the layers in the landscape and the taller trees in the upper right - the few left standing on the edge of clearcut logging.
Old growth forest is something to behold - full of large trees, large ferns, large sections of mosses - pretty well large everything. I find it spiritual.