Celebrating The Tree

I have always loved trees......so this thread is dedicated to them....
What do you have to add?
It can be anything pertaining to trees....

Here is a fascinating article I read today.......I always felt this way, too....
have you hugged a tree lately?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/world/europe/german-forest-ranger-finds-that-trees-have-social-networks-too.html

 

Ha Ha...Bing has a photo of a Cypress tree today with a hammock in it.....now is Bing following me? LOL!

 

The first two of these images are taken along the Bruce Trail. The third and fourth images are taken in roughly the same area, but from the Devil's Punch Bowl. The third image is facing the Bowl, the fourth image is taken from atop the Bowl.

I love walking through the trails. The Niagara Escarpment is absolutely breathtaking, regardless of the time of year.

 

i have a lot of random stuff to say about trees:

my dad planted an oak tree in the front yard when he was19. he always had pride for that tree and would yell at us if we broken any branches when climbing it

we also had a bunch of apple trees, and we sold christmas trees.

 

I've got an acre of trees to plant...


Well... I've got the acre. Not that many trees, yet.

 

simbiotic relationship between 'animals' and 'vegitation'

and the vegitation came first, to make the air 'animals' (including ourselves) need to breathe.

our oxygen is their waste, just as our waste, feeds them.

at least that's the way it worked in nature, still does, before we started producing excess carbon.

of course there's more then mechanistic function. there's also aesthetics and spirit.

growing up rural as i did, anything less then a forest, never quite 'feels right'

i respect the life that somehow thrives in desert and semi-desert. i'm amazed by it even.

but a forest is so much more, and one tree by itself, surround by pavement, or even sand, seems almost in humane.

i guess to anyone who has only known cities, i must seem weird. probably most people who live beyond the suburbs and the farms
take their surroundings pretty much for granted too.
i remember most people i grew up with, and most members of their families did.
really didn't see themselves as part of a web of life of which the tree and the forest were and are an essential part.

people can go all crazy about stuff like that too, and if that's how i sound, that's not what i mean.
but that interaction, mutual provision, between animal life and plant life,
that is the very foundation of our own existence.

without it we would never, could never, have come to be.

 

I love trees too, they're very special to me. What is your favorite type of tree, Moonglow?

 

I like trees

 

One of my favourite trees is a weeping willow. I have always found them to be majestic and so lovely to watch when there is any breeze. I have never been able to have one as they are very intrusive with roots and in the country on my property they would interfere with my septic bed and well.

Maybe someday.....who knows.

 

Is that anywhere near Niagara Falls? This one looks like a scale model of it, the only other round waterfall I've ever seen.

My state (NC) is covered in big trees almost everywhere, including in the mountains and around all of our waterfalls. At the coast, we're too far north for palm trees, but not Spanish moss, which hangs from some of the old oaks.

 

i was looking for tree pics but i found my roll cloud one instead


some trees on the horizon are just planted for looks....all that green on the other side of that road is planted there to hide the millions of tons of polluted mine tailings and slag piles


that was one hell of a thunderstorm that hit once that roll cloud passed by

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_giant_sequoias
List_of_largest_giant_sequoias

 

I was kind of weirded out the first time I went out west and none of the mountains had trees on them

 

I used to live in a town that had quite a few of these "Weeping Beech" trees. They're magnificent! The one nearest my house was the size of the one in the photo below.

Outside:



Underneath:




Sorry if these are huge.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Punch_Bowl_(Hamilton,_Ontario)


https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2107802,-79.7563916,177m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

 

For sure! As a frequent childhood visitor to our mountains, it took me a while to get over the shock of seeing them in winter for the first time, when all the trees looked like nothing but tiny brown sticks from a distance. The only benefit was on back roads, where scenic views were available in places where leaves block everything in summer.

If I ever moved out west (other than California) I'd really miss the trees and their seasonal changes. When the weather is right, the fall colors are absolutely breathtaking, especially in West Virginia. Not really sure why their colors are often brighter.

The ugliest mountains I've ever seen are the big, bland, brown piles of dirt around Las Vegas, off in the distance. However, the bright red rock formations closer to town are cool.

Typical of trees around Wilmington, NC: