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Autumn fire in the leaves on Lodore Road, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. This panorama was constructed from 10 horizontal photos by the free version of Autostitch.
"Kaleidoscope tree"
I have decided 2014 will be my year of the tree. I will attempt to make a cane every week that features a tree. Hopefully this self challenge will expand my knowledge of cane making and also give me some interesting canes to play with.
This is the Jabberwocky Tree located in the staff garden at Christchurch College in Oxford. This Jabberwocky Tree is a Japanese Plane and this is and its two sisters are the originators of every hybrid and London Plane Tree in the UK.
There was at one time a Don of mathematics at Christchurch named Charles Dodgson who befriended the three children of Henry Liddell especially his daughter Alice who begged him to write the stories he told them down. Dodgson wrote the stories down under the pen name of Lewis Carroll and until his death never admitted they were the same man. Dodgson did write much under his own name though in the field of mathematics. Legend has it that Queen Victoria loved Alice in Wonderland so much she asked him to send a copy of his next book when it came out and what she was sent was one of Charles Dodgsons books on mathematics.
You can see much evidence of the adventures of Alice in Christchurch including Dodgson's own nickname 'the Dodo' and their father Henry Liddell was known as the Little White Rabbit as Christchurch operates on 'Oxford Time' which is five minutes behind Greenwich Meridian Time (this harks back to the time before the railways when there were different time zones in England). He would often be seen running looking at his watch wearing his ceremonial white robes and was nicknamed the White Rabbit for this reason!
The Jabberwocky how ever is my favourite and truly is within Carroll's style of literary nonsense and tells the story of a mans son who slays the evil Jabberwock!
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Starry Night Tree"
I have decided 2014 will be my year of the tree. I will attempt to make a cane every week that features a tree. Hopefully this self challenge will expand my knowledge of cane making and also give me some interesting canes to play with.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
.............William Wordsworth.
Unusual tree Bermuda. I do not what species this is but this seemed to be the most elaborate and oldest that I saw of it's kind on the Island.
Skateboard Trees at Mega Skate Plaza, 500 Blount Street, Fayetteville, NC
Created by David Beasley & Dorian Motowylak, 2008
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Skateboard shrine must come down
By Don Worthington
Staff writer, Fayetteville Observer
Broken skateboards nailed to trees and sneakers hanging from their limbs outside the Blount Street Skate Shop.
The city’s Board of Adjustment voted 4-1 Monday to support the city’s opinion that the skateboards and sneakers are an illegal sign.
Blount Street Skate owner Ross Roggio disagrees, saying he will appeal the board’s decision to Superior Court.
Assistant City Attorney Amanda Briggs said this is a case of equitable enforcement of the sign ordinance. To allow the skate shop to display the broken skateboards gave it one more sign than other businesses.
Skateboarders attending Monday’s meeting saw it differently. Some said the trees are a work of art. Others said it was a memorial to all those who skate.
They had an almost universal reaction to the Board of Adjustment’s decision — it was people in power sticking it to them.
“I expected this,” said Stephen Waters, who works at the skate shop. “Any time you talk about skateboarding it’s a negative.
“I’ve even been ticketed just walking down the street with my skateboard.”
Waters said he had between 15 and 20 broken boards nailed to the trees. There are about 200 boards total nailed to the trees.
Displaying the broken boards and worn-out sneakers was the brainchild of David Beasley and Dorain Motowylak.
“This was never intended to be a sign. It’s a work of art,” Beasley told the Board of Adjustment.
Laney Branch, who worked at the skate shop, said it was a badge of honor for kids to have their boards nailed to the tree.
“They would come to me holding their broken boards with glee,” she said.
Marcella Casals, a mother of two who do not skate, called the tree a piece of folk art.
“It’s a creative, joyful expression, not an intent to advertise.”
Motowylak called the result a “thing of awe.” He said talking it down would “support all the hateful people who bash us.”
Briggs said the city was not anti-skateboarders.
Board of Adjustment member Lee Zuravel said this was not an attempt to stifle their creativity.
The board hears requests for variances to the city’s zoning code and cases involving decisions by the Inspection Department.
Blount Street Skate Shop owner Roggio said no one was paid to nail the boards to the trees. He said the practice will be suspended while the decision is appealed.
He added if the city wants to call the trees a sign, provisions of the ordinance would exempt the skateboards and shoes.
Signs that are not legible are exempt. Outdoor merchandise also is exempt, he said.
The city’s position is that a sign is anything that conveys a message.
Zuravel had problems with the wording of the “snipe sign” provisions of the ordinance.
The city said the skateboards and sneakers violated the “snipe signs” provision.
A snipe sign is defined as any sign attached to “any curb, sidewalk, utility pole, post fence, hydrant, bridge, another sign or surface, public bench, street light, or any tree, rock, or other natural object located on, over, or across any public street or public property.”
Briggs said the prohibition applied to signs on public and private property.
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Photos ©2008 Selena Harvey - Do not reproduce without permission.
I think that these two trees have little or no branches anymore. They stand in a spot that rarely gets direct sunlight.
Pin cushions made with felt, crochet and beads. Blogged at bearpawandbearpaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/little-trees.html
Trees produce oxygen and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The roots of a tree usually grow underground, helping keep it stable and providing it with water and important nutrients. Water and nutrients travel up the tree trunk, through the branches and all the way out to the leaves.
today again sun and blue sky. so we were off to the Osterwald, about an hour from Hannover. This is taken on the way back. Those wonderful tree lanes are in danger ( not conform to the EU regulations: no money to repair these streets as long as the trees are so close to the road).I now realise how much I like them..
It turns out these goats like the argan fruit so much that they climb the trees eventhough there's enough food to be found elsewhere.
These Argan trees are only found in southern Morocco (this shot was taken on the way to Taroudant). Apart from being a habitat for goats the trees are also famous for producing argan oil which is starting to become quite popular in cosmetics and foods outside of Morocco.
Trees, Granite Slabs. Yosemite National Park, California. September 9, 2014. © Copyright 2014 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
A group of small trees find a marginal existence growing along a crack at the edge of an exfoliated slab of granite, Yosemite National Park
It took me three tries, on successive days, to finally get the photograph of this little bit of granite slab and trees that I was looking for. On evening of our first day camping in the vicinity we were under the thick smoke plume from the early September "Meadow" fire in Yosemite, which was burning some miles away in the Little Yosemite Valley area — but also sending dense smoke towards us and dropping ash from the sky. I did make a few photographs in this eerie light the first night, but it was a very tricky situation that did not work well for this subject. I went back on the second evening, when the smoke had diminished at our location to the point that it wasn't a major factor in "intimate landscape" photographs like this one. I went to the top of a large granite bowl before the light was good and scouted for likely photographs to make as the evening light improved. I spotted this lengthy crack at the edge of an exfoliated granite slab, in which a number of small trees had taken tenuous root and decided that it could be an interesting subject with evening sidelight. I wasn't the only one, however, and three members of our party had the same idea! We are a cooperative bunch, so I photographed some other things while my partners worked this spot, and then returned to set up a shot that looked more directly up the length of the crack that curves through the composition in this version. Later that evening I was quickly reviewing my shots from the day, and I realized that one of my buddies had cast a long shadow into part of the frame! Ah, well, such things happen.
So I made plans to go back yet again on our final evening in the area and try once more. In the end, I'm glad that I did. I'm now convinced that by going back I found a more interesting composition that accomplished several things. First, no one's shadow is in the image! Second, I think that positioning the large crack so that it curves more diagonally through the frame works better than my original composition. Third, due to this different camera position and somewhat different light, I was able to let the shadow of the tree create a sort of mirror image of its form, resulting in a relationship between the tree and the shadow that I like. There are spots much like this one all over the place in Yosemite — smooth slabs of granite on which tiny but often mature trees manage to find just enough sustenance. In this little spot, a somewhat unusual number of these trees seem to have made a success of it.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist whose subjects include the Pacific coast, redwood forests, central California oak/grasslands, the Sierra Nevada, California deserts, urban landscapes, night photography, and more.
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