Oak Trees: The Quercus Club
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"This oak tree and me, we're made of the same stuff."
- Carl Sagan
Gnarly old oak tree along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The oaks and the pines, and their brethren of the wood, have seen so many suns rise and set, so many seasons come and go, and so many generations pass into silence, that we may well wonder what “the story of the trees” would be to us if they had tongues to tell it, or we ears fine enough to understand.
-- Author Unknown
Oak casting shadows on a sunny autumn afternoon, on the avenue of trees at Tredegar House Country Park in Newport. Just a few leaves have fallen...
Late autumn, this old oak had already lost much of it's leaves. They had turned orange-brown and I thought a desaturation in post processing worked very well here.
On this huge fallen oak, the rain was accentauting all the grain and knots, and there were so many species of fungi and lichens too.
This is National Tree Week here in Ireland {5th of March onwards} where we celebrate
our trees. We havent got many but thankfully since 2000 they have started planting more of our native hardwood species and less of those horrid Norway Spruce that block out light from the forest floor and prevent all the wonderful undergrowth, fungii and wild flowers from growing. Of course they are a commercial crop and vital for the economy. Indeed, Coilte, the forestry people here do great work as they allow access through there land and plantations to access the trails and mountain tracks which I love so much.
I dont think theres is anything more wonderful than Oak trees.
This tree which is an Irish Oak [Quercus Petraea] is reckoned to be over 400 years old and is growing in the Powerscourt Valley, near the waterfall here in Co. Wicklow. The ground and the humidity seems to suit them better than the more common English Oak [Quercus Robur] which are also magnificent trees.
I would really love to see more of your tree photos here on Flickr as the truly are such beautiful things.
Do hope you like it! Catch up with you later,
P@t. x.
A veteran oak, with attendant meadow sweet, on a summer morning in Eades Meadow, a Worcestershire Wildlife Trust Reserve.
When Rob was a kid, electricity pylons and cables were forcefully erected across his parents' farm which spoiled his mother's proud view of her land from the kitchen window. So Rob and his dad planted this oak in the hope that one day it would obscure these blights of the landscape.. i guess it's about 50 years old now.
in this view looking west towards the lane, those electricity lines — which you can see approaching the farm — are much farther away and less offensive than from the northern view his mother used to enjoy.
500-year-old Southern Live Oak, Quercus virginiana, in Airlie Gardens, Wilmington NC. The largest of its kind in North Carolina. Just a tourist shot, really, but it is an amazing tree.
27 July 2021; 08:30 CDT; SOOC
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