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cat Lola checking the stone cave
it reached its final height in the back and will need a roof soon
aahh, some sunshine after so many grey days and cold nights...
Walnut Trees can grow to 35metres They typically have a short trunk and broad crown.
Pollinated by wind, female flowers develop into a fruit with a green, fleshy husk and a brown, wrinkled walnut.
Found throughout the UK; short winters and more sunshine provide the perfect growing and fruiting conditions for walnuts which prefers well-drained, fertile and alkaline loam soils
The leaves are the food plant for caterpillars of a number of micro moths, and the nuts are eaten by mammals, including mice and squirrels. The botanical name of the English walnut, Juglans regia, means the 'royal nut of Jupiter'!
Interestingly, the squirrels are responsible for the appearance of so many young to not-so-young Walnut trees, both on the rough pastureland and.in local gardens, including my own - there's even one growing in a pot that we certainly didn't plant!
I did a series of geometrical paintings on cuts from a Walnut tree.
I love them so much!
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Monica Bellucci is the guardian of the woods ;-)
She controls anyone who crosses the track.
Have a great Sunday, my dear Flickr Friends.
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The walnut tree in the back yard has lost nearly all its leaves and fruit. The gray skies make for a dreary day indeed.
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DAY 11
Distance & Time: By car - 110 km / 4 hrs
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Long, long ago in a faraway land lived seven brothers, who were wild and fierce. People were afraid of their ways and kept them locked away in cages. On day when no one was looking and was busy with their deeds, the brothers looked here and then they looked there, broke open their cages, winked at each other and flew away to Kham. No, back in those days they did not have any aviation service but the brothers just happened to be gods and had their very own pair of wings!
Kham was far, far away from home in Tibet and as a year passed they were not so happy, in the next even less and with passing of each year the ratio proportion of happiness declined more and more. If you want to know why, the answer is pretty simple; they were terribly and miserably and horribly homesick.
So, one fine morning they decided collectively that enough was enough; they were getting back home.
On their way back, they walked some and flew some. While crossing Ladakh, two of the brothers liked the place that they saw, rested there and decided to stay on forever. All embraced each other, said 'goodbye' and the remaining five of them proceeded onwards.
Days later, another couple of them fell in love with the place they had rested in and stayed on too. Little away another two following examples of the elder brothers settled in the next place nicely.
The last remaining brother was determined to carry on and reach home but soon he felt tired and hungry and lonely and fell under the spell of a beautiful place with juniper groves and thought, "I might as well!"
Now, the valley we can see below surrounded by mountains from all sides is where many, many years ago the last lonely brother had made his home!
At the foothill of the left range, runs the forceful river Indus. The horizon is cut off by the mighty boundary of rocks, to the right on a mid level ridge sits the ruins of the old castle. Matchbox like houses occupies most of the foreground. On the terrace of some houses, an orange carpet of apricots for drying can be seen. At the middle, lies patches of barley fields, with trees of walnut, apricot and pencil cedar spiked sky bound. The view is slightly marred by cobweb like tangled electricity wires several feet above (the houses).
Situated at an altitude of 3,041 m / 9, 977 ft., the village boasts of a high school, an office for collecting tax or khral from the landholders or shar-ba as known in Ladakhi.
Food of the gods, medicine for the people! Walnut was first introduced by the Romans who, like much of our native wildlife, valued its nuts.
Walnut is a deciduous broadleaf tree which can grow to 35m. They typically have a short trunk and broad crown, though can be narrower if grown in a woodland situation. The bark is smooth and olive-brown when young, developing fissures and fading to silver-grey with age. Twigs are stout, green and curving.
The leaves are the foodplant for caterpillars of a number of micro moths, and the nuts are eaten by mammals, including mice and squirrels.
Mythology and symbolism
The walnut's botanical name, Juglans, originates in Roman mythology. According to an ancient myth, Jupiter, who was also known as Jove, dined on walnuts when he lived on earth.
I have no doubt that this sapling was planted by a Grey Squirrel a few years ago and has been happily sited in a large pot for all that time! About time to move it into the garden, methinks!
After I cleaned out my driveway yesterday I took a few shots around the neighborhood as the sky was clearing and the light was really nice. This is the walnut tree in my backyard. Can you see 2 squirrels nests in it? I don't know what keeps them there because we've had some very strong winds.
Rain falls on Pusch Ridge in the Catalina Mountains, as seen from under the ancient Arizona walnut tree in Catalina State Park.
This beautiful walnut was probably planted by the Iversons who owned the land many, many years ago.
Watercolor plus pen and ink field sketch.
Absolute tragedy today when our ancient and extremely large walnut tree suddenly fell over when we were standing nearby. No wind, just old age and rotted-out roots and tree. Fortunately nobody was hurt.
I'm left with a load of walnuts to try to propagate and some would say that we will have to rename Nut Tree Farm as it was in its garden. Actually there's a bigger walnut tree growing behind the house.
In another 150-200 years someone else might enjoy the shade of one of the descendants. I'll just have to see who wants a walnut table for now.
A winter day meet at the East end of Covell siding between the westbound San Joaquin Daylight, Train # 51 and SP Extra 6362. This shot was taken from up in a walnut tree - I guess I was desperate for a new angle, so up I went. It's a wet day as you can tell from the raincoat-wearing head brakeman and the wet nose of the 6393 leading the Daylight. Walnut trees are slippery when wet but somehow I survived the climb up and the descent.
A westwards view from the tower of St. Gregory's church, Sudbury, Suffolk; looking across the River Stour water meadows to Bulmer and Brandon. The building in the left foreground is the now unoccupied Walnut Tree Hospital. The building opened as the town's purpose-built workhouse in 1837. In 1929 it was a Poor Law Institution containing infirmary wards, finally becoming Walnuttree Hospital in 1946. It is currently intended to convert the building into 42 flats.
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Today was adventurous as yesterday. But I thought to stop at the old walnut tree from my garden. It is very old, I think more than a century. It has survived two World Wars and it is still standing. For me, the tree has another meaning with great memories from my childhood where I spent many summers playing near it. The trunk is very wide and maybe three men holding hands could embrace it between their arms. Being that said and being a little nostalgic, I think that the tree still has a long life in ahead. Can’t wait to see it again.