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A shoe tree is a device approximating the shape of a foot that is placed inside a shoe to preserve its shape, stop it from developing creases and thereby extend the life of the shoe. It is a reusable alternative to wadded rags or newspapers.
Perhaps more important than maintaining the shape, shoe trees also play a crucial part of wicking away leather-damaging moisture from the inside. This is especially important when shoes are worn without socks, as the sweat absorbed by the leather can lead to lining rot
Higher quality shoe trees are made from solid wood, usually cedar, which helps control odor and absorb moisture. Other materials include beech, lime and alderwood. Although most shoe tree manufacturers claim that cedarwood is superior, there is really no difference as long as the shoe tree is made of unfinished wood.
This tree must be sandalwood.
We stopped at Meeting of the Waters for lunch - from here it is back uphill. Springbrook National Park, Queensland.
I took a GorillaPod so was able to take some long exposures and fight of a leech at the same time!
A long single track lane lined with trees which I think are White Poplars.
Can't wait to return when there is some thick fog.
A joshua tree at sunset, on the way from Beatty, Nevada towards Las Vegas.
During the 30 second exposure I illuminated the tree using a spotlight from both sides.
Additional photos from this road trip may be found on my blog.
Hau‘ula, O‘ahu.
It's been brought to my attention that in many parts of the world, pumpkins grow on vines along the ground.
So I thought I'd post a couple of pinhole photos of a pumpkin tree growing on a local beach on the windward-side of the island.
Le Bambole Mk. II Pinhole Camera. Kodak 160 Portra NC. Exposure: f/256 and 2 seconds.
Taken at night while it was still lightly snowing. I wasn't sure what color I liked the sky to be while I was processing, so I tried a few out.
I'm not a big fan of snow, especially driving in it, but I do love how the trees look like this just after it snows. :)
My wife and I came across this lone tree on a recent walk in Gills Rock, Wisconsin in beautiful Door County, Wisconsin. The fall colors have peaked and beautiful color is everywhere. View On Black
As always, your views and comments are welcome and appreciated.
Kansas City Zoo
Ruw (2-year-old chimp) is enjoying a blossom from a star magnolia tree. But don’t let this sweet little girl fool you! She is getting ready to eat the blossom at the Kansas City Zoo.
This one tree stretches for ten sections of the fencing. I'm not sure if the sections are eight or ten feet each, but either way, this tree sure has a very broad canopy!
This 250 year old White Oak tree in Oakville Ontario was set to be cut down in 2006 to make room for an expansion to Bronte Road. With the city unwilling to foot the bill, the community got together to raise the $340,000 needed to re-route the road around the tree (they were just short of the goal at the deadline but the city and province stepped in and made up the difference).
The tree won and now stands in the middle of the road with two lanes going around each side of the tree.
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday
Cananga odorata, known as the cananga tree (Indonesian: kenanga, Balinese: sandat, Acehnese: seulanga), is a tropical tree that originates in the Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines.[1] It is valued for the perfume extracted from its flowers, called ylang-ylang.
I was informed by a guide that the flowers are also used for making a rather well known French perfume.
This capture was taken in Washington State.
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You might wonder how a tree – and a dead one at that – can be a heritage attraction. Well for starters, the tree is a Limber Pine that lived for over 300 years (perhaps 700 years, some experts say) before it died around 1978. It stands like a sentinel at the east portal of the Crowsnest Pass, atop a low stony ridge right at the edge of Highway 3 near the site of the former town of Burmis, about 10 kilometres east of the Frank Slide.
The Burmis Tree was already hundreds of years old when the Davenport Coal Company started operations in 1910, and the village of Burmis sprang up with its NWMP police post, pool hall, school, church and a few businesses. The mine only operated until 1914 and then Burmis quickly declined, only to be briefly rejuvenated by the Burmis Lumber Company operations between 1933 and 1956.
The town of Burmis is no more, only a few houses and recreational properties remain. But every year thousands of tourists stop at the highway pulloff there, to look at the Burmis Tree and to read the interpretive panel. It is said that the Burmis Tree is the most photographed tree in Canada, and it is also the subject of many paintings, poems and other artistic expressions. It is beautiful, in it’s own rugged, windswept way. It is a perfect symbol for the Crowsnest Pass, an image of tough survival against all odds – typical, it seems, of everything and everyone here in the Pass.