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A pine tree and willows covered in hoar frost with the sun just breaking through to light things up.
Big Maple Plain - for me one of the most beautiful places in the Northern Limestone Alps. I love this combination of mountains, plain and wonderful trees. The best time of the year to visit this place is - of course - autumn... many people know this and therefore it's really crowded on weekends... for a visit I usually wait until late afternoon.
The Big Maple Plain (1216 m) is located in the middle of the Alpine Park Karwendel on the Eng Alp in Tyrol, Austria and can be reached only via Bavaria.
The Eng Alp is the biggest alpine pasture of Europe. Here everybody can see how farmers are important for taking care of the landscape. Thanks to their constant care and a regular use of the alpine pastures the big Ahornboden (Maple Plain) can be maintained in perfect conditions. In summer almost 500 cows graze on this alpine pasture.
Some of the maples are older than 500 years and during autumn their leaves show striking colors.
The Alpine Park Karwendel is:
• one of the biggest reserves of the East Alps with its approx. 920 km²
• the biggest nature reserve of Austria
• the biggest reserve in Tyrol (730 km²)
It's not too often you can shoot Animal Kingdom at night. I highly recommend it if you ever get the opportunity. The park definitely takes on a different vibe at night and it's lit beautifully.
Walt Disney World | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Tree of Life
Even the rock doesn't stop that tree growing.
Viltrox 85mm f/1.8 STM Mark II
Fujifilm CLASSIC CHROME
Scatto effettuato con Canon 7D e obiettivo M42 Weltblick 35mm 1.8 diaframma a 5,6
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Shot taken with Canon 7D and lens Weltblick 35mm 1.8, aperture 5,6
"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.
"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.
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.
My tree peonies have suffered a bit with the frost after such a good Spring start! All that were fully open have turned a ghastly pale shade and then dropped their petals … this one's a bit later in opening, so fingers crossed!
Tree peonies have to rate very highly amongst my favourite plants and are actually shrubs, with permanent, woody stems and larger flowers than the herbaceous types.
Trouble is, now it's flowering, I'm still not sure which it is, though Hong Bao Shi (Red Precious Stone) is a possibility!
Pin cushions made with felt, crochet and beads. Blogged at bearpawandbearpaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/little-trees.html
One of the first elements you come across from the parking lot is this tree next to a (now frozen) pond. The sun was setting so I set it up as a silhouette. Not much activity in the park since snow fall as the smoothe snow would attest to.
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..