I love how wiggly and bendy this tree is
It's like "Hmmmm no I will simply twist myself around like the twisted ones"
I would like to try painting this tree one day
Love the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, this photo is a composite (stitched) of four photos taken with a 3MP camera back in Sep 2004. Only way I could get the hole tree in one frame being so close to it from the trail, and using a fixed lens point N shoot camera.
Now THIS is the tree my mental image always pictured had a bunch of Dwarves, a Hobbit and a bedraggled wizard in it, fighting off wargs and Orcs with pinecones...
Oh there is certainly no cat but my brain sees one in all the shapes of the twigs. Its wild how much things my brain sees in a photo of a tree. Where i live we like normal looking trees maybe thats why.
You don't need to cut it all down, you can take very small samples with a borer. It only leaves a small hole in the trunk without damaging the tree much at all, and you count the layers in that tiny sample.
you can also use the tree rings as a CO2 proxy (gotta be careful and correlate it with other stuff like ice cores tho)!
we have some of those cores at work in the deep freeze. i only ever get to see the empty tubes tho
I should be so lucky
One of my best friends has instead threatened to steal my body after I die and have me taxidermied in a position that will let him use me as a coffee table :(
This is now A Thing.
This is a blue spruce I had planted this spring. I don't know why, but I especially love this particular tree in this particular spot.
I throw nuts and seeds out between it and where this shot was taken from the window, so that critters have a secluded spot in front to eat.
I love Colorado Blues.
Wait until the growth spurt kicks in after the roots get well-established.
Say goodbye to the lamppost*. 🤪
*unless it's one of the narrow, tall cultivars like 'fastigata'
That is actually the plan. The lamppost annoys me. There's no switch for it, and it's just automatic, plus it sheds light nowhere near the house number.
I'd rather have more subtle lights than this big glaring thing I can't turn off.
This tree has never eaten a human a day in its life. Definitely never eaten a few cougars or bears either.
(From Avatar Grove, near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, 2016.)