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One of the trails we rode our bikes on was called the Lupine Trail. There were lots of Aspen Trees and Lupine flowers. I don't have photos of the flowers because I was too busy trying not to fall off my bike. This part of the trail was reasonably flat.
I love the bark of these trees. It has the texture and feel of soft tissue paper and readily peels off. According to Wikipedia:
The Paperbark tree's scientific name is Melaleuca. It is a genus of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae. There are well over 200 recognised species, most of which are endemic to Australia. A few species occur in Malesia and 7 species are endemic to New Caledonia. The species are shrubs and trees growing (depending on species) to 2–30 m (6.6–98 ft) tall, often with flaky, exfoliating bark. The leaves are evergreen, alternately arranged, ovate to lanceolate, 1–25 cm (0.39–9.8 in) long and 0.5–7 cm (0.20–2.8 in) broad, with an entire margin, dark green to grey-green in colour. The flowers are produced in dense clusters along the stems, each flower with fine small petals and a tight bundle of stamens; flower colour varies from white to pink, red, pale yellow or greenish. The fruit is a small capsule containing numerous minute seeds.
One well-known melaleuca, the Ti tree (aka tea tree), Melaleuca alternifolia, is notable for its essential oil which is both anti-fungal, and antibiotic, while safely usable for topical applications. This is produced on a commercial scale, and marketed as Tea Tree Oil. It is a widely used and an effective alternative treatment to common fungal finger nail and toe nail infections.
In Hawaiʻi and the Florida Everglades, Melaleuca quinquenervia (Broad-leaved Paperbark) was introduced in order to help drain low-lying swampy areas. It has since gone on to become a serious invasive weed with potentially very serious consequences being that the plants are highly flammable and spread aggressively.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God aft day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
The Laburnum tree, ones of natures spring time beauties. The trailing yellow flowers wave gently in the breeze. Nature really is spectacular.
Apart from some people, and one dog, the only thing I miss about the Midlands is Cannock Chase. It's a wonderful place. Colin's oak picture reminded me of this.
Late afternoon shot taken near Delamere .
Busy week this week , so may not be here much , so i would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy new year :)
Thanks to all my contacts for your comments and faves throughout 2010 :)
For Slider Sunday
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Lonely tree on the top of Mam Tor in the UK Peak District, back-lit through the sun and rain.
The tree's set back about 10-15 metres from all the other trees there, you can see how it stands alone in the previous shot. As Dave pointed out it's quite eye-catching and you end up noticing all the time when you look up at the peak.
Kauai's Tree Tunnel on the way to Koloa town and Poipu beach, was planted over 150 years ago when the wealthy 'Scotsman' and Kauai cattle rancher Walter Duncan McBryde donated over 500 Eucalyptus trees that were left over after landscaping his estate. The tree tunnel is over a mile long and shades the cars that pass underneath along the highway.
Where I was standing to get this shot was at a three way intersection, and of course I picked one of the busiest times to try and get it! I really wanted this shot without any cars in it and I noticed that every few minutes there would be a break in the traffic. After standing in the middle of the road for about 10 minutes I got this shot a split second before a car came into the frame on my right side. The only thing I had to clone out was some lady standing on the right side of the road taking pictures with her camera phone!
Canon 5D Mark ll
EF 24-70mm @ 70mm
f/3.5 ISO 500
1/100 Sec exposure
One tree which is in our front garden. 3 selections flipped and rotated to give these abstract forms, each one cropped square and added to the triptych.
Scene captured on an early Tuesday morning on the Westerheide heath east of Hilversum, The Netherlands: a composition with tree in the blue-hour mist.
Freda Marston 1895 - 1949 born in London she studied at Regent St Poly and was a pupil of Terrick Willimas. Lived in Sussex. Above info from 'British Prints Dictionary' The book Etched in Memory mentions that she maried a painter but not which one. There is more Biog re her paintings here ( with husband)http://www.markmitchellpaintings.com/details.php?product=205
This is cropped quite close but still has the blind stamps bottom left.
I love those old wise trees, they look like very special creatures to me and so relevant for the whole Mediterranean area....