For those of you with snow, remember that the seasons change....
Eat one live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you all day.
rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
Miniscule portion of 37 acre Lotusland near Santa Barbara.
The older I get the faster I was Brian Clare
There are a lot of cedars in this particular arboreal forest.
But I do think that one is a white cedar as you say. Although, I have never seen one with as developed a “river” pattern on the bark.
At the risk of pushups for posting a second picture in a one picture thread, this tree intriques me. This photo is a young one. They are usually single trees although I did see one stand of 6 or 7 of them that were mostly mature and quite tall. They have leaves that turn to a very light brown in the autumn. The interesting part is that the leaves in the dried out state are very very thin, almost rice paper-y. And they do not fall off after they turn brown. This photo doesn’t do it justice but they are really quite striking against the snow.
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-Jon Mandel
I think that it’s a beech, Jon. You really notice them around here in the late Fall through early Winter.
rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
Beech or a hornbeam. Hornbeams commonly keep their leaves through the winter. I think the longer leaves make this one likely to be a hop hornbeam. The name comes from the flowers that resemble hops. But it is sometimes difficult to identify saplings, even with the leaves.
Last edited by j44ke; 02-22-2022 at 10:36 PM.
My first reaction was "beech" but J's got a point with the hornbeam.
Borrowing eRichie’s slogan of “all this by hand”…
rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
Took the kids into the city today and hit in their words, “five monuments!”
The wind at the base of the Washington Monument was blowing them all around the plaza.
We talked a lot about how nice it is to visit your country’s capital and walk around in peace and enjoy it, because that is not the case everywhere these days.
(I left out the part where if we lived in the Falls Church of Ukraine we’d likely be in separate countries right now and dad would be looking up Molotov Cocktail recipes online rather than talking bikes…)
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February 28, 2022 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr
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rw saunders
hey, how lucky can one man get.
March 5, 2022 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr
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