What a beautiful world we live in, Trees

[madokie]

Enjoy!

http://www.duskyswondersite.com/nature/trees/

[Octafish]

1. Marvels.

[ReRe]

2. Wow...

... I would love to see all those trees up close. Heck, I would settle to have them painted in mural on my bedroom walls! Thanks, madokie.

[Boom Sound 416]

3. Agreed

But I always think of this

[NM_Birder]

4. LOL ..."If your're gonna be a bear ...be a grizzly"!

[Boom Sound 416]

6. Holla!

That's my motto!!

[NM_Birder]

10. ;) Sammy Davis Jr and Dean Martin

driving a Ferrari dressed as priests, LOVED the Cannonball Run as a kid, still watch it every now and then

[Boom Sound 416]

14. Because your small! S M All

It's free and full length on you tube.

[NM_Birder]

15. LOL ....... "if we were Methodists,...we'd have a good chance at gettin laid"

had it for years,.. we go through a 70's - 80's movie throwback every now and then.

[annabanana]

5. spectacular

Great link, thank you!

[davidpdx]

7. Are the trees all the same height?

Sorry I couldn't resist.

[fadedrose]

8. Besides awing me with these fabulous pictures

of these fabulous trees, I am also reminded...

that we have put off pruning the trees off our patio before they attach themselves to the roof and find their way into my home ....better get to it today....

Trees, dogs or birds, don't know which I love the most.....

Thank you for posting.

[Oilwellian]

9. I think I'll go hug a tree now

Beautiful.

[malaise]

11. Magnificent

Rec

[pipi_k]

12. Beautiful!

I've always loved trees.

Living in the forest is like a daily spiritual experience for me. Thanks for sharing this.

[snagglepuss]

13. O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees

O dreamy, gloomy, friendly Trees,
I came along your narrow track
To bring my gifts unto your knees
And gifts did you give back;
For when I brought this heart that burns--
These thoughts that bitterly repine--
And laid them here among the ferns
And the hum of boughs divine,
Ye, vastest breathers of the air,
Shook down with slow and mighty poise
Your coolness on the human care,
Your wonder on its toys,
Your greenness on the heart's despair,
Your darkness on its noise.



-F. H. Trench

[Martin Eden]

16. Marvelous pics ... thanks for sharing! n/t

[Agony]

17. Awesome! Thank you for sharing this.. Here is a story about Redwoods that you might enjoy

The picture of General Sherman made me think of this story and thought you might enjoy it.

It is a long read. --->http://www.wesjones.com/climbing1.htm

here is an excerpt to tempt you... Adventure is the name of a Redwood tree.
"
With my weight on the motion lanyard, I leaned back, until my body was horizontal and my feet were planted on the trunk, and I walked up the trunk of Adventure. I threw one end of my lanyard over a higher branch, clipped it back to my saddle, and pulled myself up. Suddenly I hung near the top of the tree. At three hundred and twenty-eight feet, I found myself in the middle of a bush studded with huckleberries. I began eating them. They were tart and crunchy. The branches in the tree's top were festooned with beard lichens - they looked like the frizzy beards of dwarves. It was a sunny day, and a breeze was blowing, which stirred the lichen beards, and the air held a tang of the sea - the Pacific Ocean lay over a ridge to the west. Adventure rocked in the breeze, like a ship riding at anchor.

The uttermost top of Adventure is dead. It is a gray trunk, encrusted with lichens, which extends about six feet above the huckleberry bush, and ends at a sheared-off stump. Adventure used to be a taller tree. Its top fell off, probably in a storm, perhaps four hundred years ago, or roughly at the time that Shakespeare wrote "The Tempest." By then, it had already been growing for a thousand years, or maybe more like fifteen hundred years. ("Who the hell knows how old it is," Sillett said.) The branches around me trembled. A lanyard flipped over a nearby branch, and Marie Antoine appeared. She trunk-walked up to a kind of platform of branches, and sat in the middle of them. "The top of this tree is just a big old juicy dead-wood pit," she said.

The dead trunk at the top of Adventure is a natural water tank, she explained. Rainwater collects in the broken stump at the top, and the water runs down inside Adventure, where it saturates the rotten wood like a sponge. A coast redwood tree seems to have the ability to send out roots from any part of its tissue, including its top. Adventure may be sending roots out of the living wood in its top, which run into the dead trunk, and feeding on the dead parts of itself

"

Cheerio!
Agony

[madokie]

18. Can't wait to be able to take the time to read that

in its entirety. My brother was telling me about going to see General Sherman 40 some odd years ago when he was stationed in California in the Navy and hopes he and his wife can make a return trip. Said you pretty much have to lay down to see all the way to the top as its so tall, just can't bend your head back far enough to take it all in

Thanks for the link

[SalviaBlue]

19. Beautiful!!!

[freshwest]

20. I love nothing in the plant kingdom more than trees. Thanks for this.

[Cha]

21. Trees are Fantastical, madokie! Mahalo!