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This example of modern rigging techniques to remove the tree safely.

A view of my backyard

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My uncle Bill gave me a small 3.5 x 5.5 sketchbook about a week ago. I really wanted to keep a sketchbook this summer, as well as explore pen and ink drawings, so I figured one that size would be perfect for me because I can easily stash it in my purse when I go places, thus having it with me wherever I go. I'm trying to do at least one drawing in it a day, preferably observational drawings, and all with pen and ink. So, prepare yourself for a lot of these small ink drawings. And please, give feedback!

Day 47: Wednesday, February 16, 2011: Walnut trees, cloudy afternoon.

The clouds broke up in the southwest just long enough for a brief, pretty searching-for-a-photo walk before sunset. The weather has been terribly fickle today. Rain! Sleet! Hail! Snow! Clouds! Sunshine! Rain! And then just now, as my husband came in from outside, he told me it was snowing. By the time I got to the door to look out, it had stopped.

Have I mentioned how I love my walnut trees? Not in the course of THIS project, I haven't! I love, love, love my walnut trees. Love!

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Walnut Leaf

The Hayton Walnut tree, Walnut Field, Hayton, Cumbria

This tree is about 250 years old, and is the largest ever walnut recorded in Cumbria. It's also in the top ten largest of its species in the UK

More pics of The Hayton Walnut tree here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157645273737041

One of out big chestnut trees in the early am

Kaltental

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Purton Green Farmhouse, Suffolk

Right after cutting... Here it can be seen, that the core of the tree had already some holes.

A very fine walnut tree stands in the grounds of an imposing 11th century priory in Binham, Norfolk, UK.

Unfortunately this walnut tree had to give way. It was quite old, and as many people told me before, it was sick already. So I don't feel so bad about it....

The Hayton Walnut tree, Walnut Field, Hayton, Cumbria

This tree is about 250 years old, and is the largest ever walnut recorded in Cumbria. It's also in the top ten largest of its species in the UK

More pics of The Hayton Walnut tree here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157645273737041

Walnut trees Highway 46 east of Wasco.

Walnut Leaf

Same trees as a few pictures ago, four hours later.

The old walnut tree under which I spent so much time as a child.

The Hayton Walnut tree, Walnut Field, Hayton, Cumbria

This tree is about 250 years old, and is the largest ever walnut recorded in Cumbria. It's also in the top ten largest of its species in the UK

More pics of The Hayton Walnut tree here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157645273737041

Since Bob's passing, the walnut tree in his yard hasn't produced any walnuts.

The Hayton Walnut tree, Walnut Field, Hayton, Cumbria

This tree is about 250 years old, and is the largest ever walnut recorded in Cumbria. It's also in the top ten largest of its species in the UK

More pics of The Hayton Walnut tree here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157645273737041kr.com/photos/davidambridge/set

Fall wildflowers and trees.

Where we stayed, on the slopes of Monte Subasio, near Assisi.

The Hayton Walnut tree, Walnut Field, Hayton, Cumbria

This tree is about 250 years old, and is the largest ever walnut recorded in Cumbria. It's also in the top ten largest of its species in the UK

More pics of The Hayton Walnut tree here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157645273737041

that's now a bush. But at least this one made it partially through, can't say the same for another. Thanks alot, cold snap last year.

This is one of three studies I made of the light and shadows on this young walnut tree in my Westwood, KS back yard. I took the photo in early July, 2008.