Archive for dead tree
art brut
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags dead tree, Humboldt Redwoods State Park, Northen California, redwood trees, summer, vacations on September 9, 2016 by xi'an
Olympus National Park [#2]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags dead tree, Olympic National Park, Pacific North West, Rialto Beach, Washington State on August 8, 2015 by xi'an
Fall
Posted in pictures with tags dead tree, Fall, morning light, sunrise on November 26, 2011 by xi'an
t’was a dark and stormy night [not!]
Posted in pictures with tags dead tree, evening light, lightning on June 12, 2011 by xi'an
It was indeed dark and stormy, but lightning made this picture look as if it was taken in full daylight… With harder contrasts and shapes… A fitting epitaph for the dead tree!
Resistance [end]
Posted in pictures with tags Catalpa, dead tree on September 18, 2010 by xi'an
After a summer of valiant resistance, and 45 years of steady growth, my neighbour’s tree is near its end, as shown by the leaves above… Since the holes made all around the trunk did not seem enough, my neighbour’s gardener stripped most of the bark (see right picture). Very sad, considering that the tree was actually doing very well and was first cut based on the inexact assessment that it was hollow and threatening to fall… Now, my 94 neighbour also is afraid to fall when picking the leaves in her garden and she can hardly afford the hourly rates the gardener asks for picking the leaves himself. So I find it difficult to blame her, I should have instead proposed to pick the leaves!
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