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New Tree to Photograph

New Tree to Photograph

New Tree to Photograph, this is a new tree for me to photograph. They are Cyprus trees and are very easy to identify because of how they start growing and the base of the trunk.

It can reach 130 feet tall, developing prominent roots or “knees” above the ground. The bald cypress is usually found in swampy areas and along riverbanks. These locations provide the trees with the plentiful water they need to thrive and with the wet conditions necessary for reproduction.

All the little stumps you see are what they call knees.

New Tree to Photograph

In the wild, cypress trees play a very important role in soaking up floodwaters and preventing soil erosion.  Environmentalist love them for their ability to trap pollutants. Frogs, toads, and salamanders prefer cypress swamps for breeding grounds. Wood ducks nest in hollow trunks and catfish spawn in submerged hollow logs, while bees, wood ducks, barrel owls and raptors nest in the treetops.

New Tree to Photograph

Bald cypresses are slow-growing trees that can live to be 600 years old.

New Tree to Photograph

by Sandra J

Happy Friday

Happy Friday

Happy Friday, it is the end of July already. I have two trees in my yard that have started to change color. That seems to early, but I do love the change of seasons and fall is my favorite one. I love the cooler temperatures and all the warm colors and sitting by the campfire on a cool evening. Have a wonderful weekend.

Happy Friday
Happy Friday

Happy Friday

by Sandra J

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees, is the United States according to a research by a group of scientists calculating comprehensive estimates of the numbers of trees in each country of the world, and how that relates to the country’s physical size, population size and more.

 It is considered a country’s Tree Wealth. Because trees contribute so much, from filtering water, combating air pollution, taking in carbon and providing food for animals and people.

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

These trees here are in my yard, plenty of moss growing on two of them, but the one in the bottom left photo does not have any tree bark. I have witnessed the birds peeling the bark off and using it in their nest. The tree is still growing despite losing its protective bark.

My second favorite tree is the Palm tree. Because if I am seeing them, it means I am down south where the weather is so nice in the winter.

The National Forest Foundation planted an incredible 5 million trees in National Forest in 2019, they estimate 2.6 million tons of CO2 will be absorbed over 100 years.

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

My most favorite tree is the Quaking Aspen Trees.

I do not know what kind of tree this is below, it was at a park we were camping at in Illinois a couple weeks ago. It did not have any bark on it, and lots of scars everywhere. But the show they put on in the fall with the beautiful colored leaves in the photos next to it, shows its beauty is beyond the scars of life.

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

I think that I will never see, a poem as lovely as a Tree

4th Place with 228 Billion Trees

Russia – 642 billion trees.

Canada – 318 billion trees.

Brazil – 302 billion trees.

United States – 228 billion trees

Estimated total Trees in the World – 3 Trillion

by Sandra J

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today, a wonderful mixture of colors on this beautiful October morning. From vibrant reds of this flower in the park.

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today

To soft changes of the coloring of the leaves lining the banks of the river.

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today

To Mr. Duck finally getting his feathers back in order after molting, they looked pretty shabby the last couple weeks as they waited for their new feathers to grow.

And last but never least, the red, orange and yellow leaves of Autumn

Vibrant and Subtle Colors Today

by Sandra J