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A tree for Tree-mendous Tuesday.
The sky blew out some of the details in the side trees but I really like the light on the main tree and how it stands on its own. Gage Park Hamilton Ontario.
Beautiful sunlight from earlier in the month.
It just looked so good.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
It starts out very little
But can turn into something big
A simple change
Can make a difference
Small or sometimes big
You can change the world
One step everyday
Step by step the world will change
Everyday a different way
But only if you take the time
Its not a sacrifice
A bit everyday the world will change
Step by step
Our problems can be solved
And soon everything could be okay.
-- Heaven Ludy
Baobab trees in a safari camp, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.
A reprocess. Original was too dark. Well, actually, now when I look I see I didn't process the same file I did before!
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The Rush track 'The Trees' from the 1978 album 'Hemispheres' inspired the title for this shot of ScotRail Class 156 No. 156504 crossing the distinctive Glasgow & South Western Railway viaduct at Kinclaer between Girvan and Barrhill with the 16:59 Stranraer – Kilmarnock service on 23rd May 2016.
For alternative railway photography, follow the link:
www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html to the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle.
Will you float or will you sink?
Will you descend and greedily drink?
The waters that flow all around
What treasures below will be found
When you descend and do drink
The waters as you slowly sink
A lone tree in Blackall's Park. I walked around it taking photos of the tree, being careful to maintain the exact same distance and orientation. 22 images combined in PhotoShop.
The fog adds such a wonderful softening effect to the environment... Love it.
This was another shot from my excursion with Olga out Windsor and Richmond way
D800E
70-200 VR2
Seriously - how often do you find such a perfectly formed tree standing alone, right in the middle of a field? Gorgeous. I shall revisit this one.
From the ant's perspective
Strobist info:
I was crouched, Camera was resting over my foot pointing up. Sony HVL-F60M flash, 1/64 level. Hand hold over my head. Proprietary SONY IR trigger.
Stylized with Capture One Pro 8.2
Taken at the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthenshire, Wales. UK.
It was pouring down with rain when I took this shot, so I have replaced the bland, grey sky with something a bit more interesting!
Many of the cherry blossoms are gone now, but there are a few still around. I took this shot just outside Washington, DC, a little over a week ago. The blossoms were at peak and everyone was enjoying a walk through the blossoms that day!
Metasequoia (dawn redwood)-one of my fafourite trees. Dawn Redwoods remind me of numerous hands stretched in vehement prayer asking for impossible.
Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA.... across the entire campus are innumerable rare and specimen plants, flowers, and trees !
"Taxodium (pronounced /tækˈsoʊdiəm/)[2] is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. The generic name is derived from the Latin word taxus, meaning "yew," and the Greek word εἶδος (eidos), meaning "similar to."[3] Within the family, Taxodium is most closely related to Chinese Swamp Cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis) and Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica).
Species of Taxodium occur in the southern part of the North American continent and are deciduous in the north and semi-evergreen to evergreen in the south. They are large trees, reaching 100–150 ft (30–46 m) tall and 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) (exceptionally 11 m/36 ft) trunk diameter. The needle-like leaves, 0.5–2 cm (0.20–0.79 in) long, are borne spirally on the shoots, twisted at the base so as to appear in two flat rows on either side of the shoot. The cones are globose, 2–3.5 cm (0.79–1.4 in) diameter, with 10-25 scales, each scale with 1-2 seeds; they are mature in 7-9 months after pollination, when they disintegrate to release the seeds. The male (pollen) cones are produced in pendulous racemes, and shed their pollen in early spring.
The trees are especially prized for their wood, of which the heartwood is extremely rot and termite resistant. The heartwood contains a sesquiterpene called cypressene,[4] which acts as a natural preservative. It takes decades for cypressene to accumulate in the wood, so lumber taken from old-growth trees is more rot resistant than that from second-growth trees.[5] However, age also increases susceptibility to Pecky Rot fungus (Stereum taxodii), which attacks the heartwood and causes some damaged trees to become hollow and thus useless for timber. Bald Cypress wood was much used in former days in the southeastern United States for roof shingles.[6] The shredded bark of these trees is used as a mulch, although the current harvest rate for this product is unsustainable and is causing substantial environmental damage especially in the south where cutting boundaries are not being followed." wikipedia.org
"One Tree Hill" by U2
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
As the day begs the night for mercy love
The sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars carved into stone
On the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes
You run like river, on like a sea
You run like a river runs to the sea
And in the world a heart of darkness
A fire zone
Where poets speak their heart
Then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon
In the hands of love
You know his blood still cries
From the ground
It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea
I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill
We run like a river
Run to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's raining
Raining hard
That's when the rain will
Break my heart
Raining...raining in the heart
Raining in your heart
Raining...raining to your heart
Raining, raining...raining
Raining to your heart
Raining...raining in your heart
Raining in your heart..
To the sea
Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea
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11.02.2015
Wauwatosa is a beautiful, tree-filled town. My favorite season is fall. It looks like a painter passed through and colored our world with warm hues of gold and bronze. So gorgeous.
Doha: Aspire Park -
ADANSONIA GREGORII, commonly known as BOAB, is a tree in the family Malvaceae. As with other baobabs, it is easily recognised by the swollen base of its trunk, which gives the tree a bottle-like appearance. Endemic to Australia, boab occurs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and east into the Northern Territory. It is the only baobab to occur in Australia, the others being native to Madagascar (six species) and mainland Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (one species).
Boab is a medium sized tree ranging in height from 5 to 15 meters, usually between 9 and 12 metres, with a broad bottle-shaped trunk.[1] Its trunk base may be extremely large; trunks with a diameter of over five metres have been recorded. Boab is deciduous, losing its leaves during the dry winter period and producing new leaves and large white flowers between December and May
The common name "boab" is a shortened form of the generic common name "baobab". Although boab is the most widely recognised common name, Adansonia gregorii has a number of other common names, including:
* baobab — this is the common name for the genus as a whole, but it is often used in Australia to refer to the Australian species;
* Australian baobab
* bottle tree
* dead rat tree
* gouty stem tree
* cream of tartar tree
* gourd-gourd tree
* sour gourd
* gadawon — one of the names used by the local Indigenous Australians. Other names include larrgadi or larrgadiy, which is widespread in the Nyulnyulan languages of the Western Kimberley.
The specific name "gregorii" honours the Australian explorer Augustus Gregory.
The plant has a wide variety of uses, most parts are edible and is the sources of a number of materials. Its medicinal products and the ability to store water through dry seasons has also been exploited.
Indigenous Australians obtained water from hollows in the tree, and used the white powder that fills the seed pods as a food. Decorative paintings or carvings were sometimes made on the other surface of the fruits. The leaves were used medicinally.
A large hollow boab just south of Derby, Western Australia is reputed to have been used in the 1890s as a lockup for Aboriginal prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. The Boab Prison Tree still stands, and is now a tourist attraction. This particular specimen is the oldest of its' species in the world./
Italiano:
Il baobab australiano (Adansonia gregorii F. Muell.), noto anche come ALBERO BOTTIGLIA o BOAB, è un albero appartenente alla famiglia delle Bombacaceae (Malvaceae secondo la classificazione APG), tipico dell'Australia nordorientale.
È l'unica specie australiana del genere Adansonia (le altre sono tutte originarie dell'Africa o del Madagascar).
L'epiteto specifico gregorii è stato dato in onore all'esploratore australiano Augustus Gregory.
Si tratta di un albero di dimensioni medie, con un'altezza di circa 9-12 m. Il tronco è corto e molto largo: può raggiungere in casi eccezionali i 5 m di diametro. Questo può contenere molta acqua, da qui il nome comune di ALBERO BOTTIGLIA; la corteccia è marrone-grigiastra e liscia
L'albero è spogliante e perde le foglie durante la stagione secca; all'arrivo delle piogge produce nuove foglie, disposte in modo alterno e divise fino a 7 foglioline di forma obovata. I fiori sono grandi, con petali bianco-crema oblunghi o spatolati; i frutti sono simili a capsule scure, contenenti semi simili a fagioli.
Gli aborigeni australiani si procuravano l'acqua da buchi scavati nel tronco; la polvere che riempie i baccelli che contengono i semi veniva usata come cibo. Talvolta incisioni o figure decorative sono state ritrovate sulla superficie dei frutti. Le foglie venivano usate come medicinale.
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