My archives has over 4,000 trees therefore it was challenging to choose photos for Terri’s Someone Planted a Tree Sunday Stills Challenge. I’ll start with a redwood I’m grateful for, because it provided free, cool, shade for my grandson’s birthday party yesterday when it was 90+ degrees
I stuck a willow twig in the ground to hold up beans, I got more than beans, on the left is a palm from a neighbors yard that adds contrast in many cloud photos.
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I love trees. I first started focusing on them when I went back to grad school at age 50 and noticed several beautiful trees on the bus route into campus. One day I got off the bus a couple miles early and walked back to the parking lot with my camera. Those were my first tree photos. Sadly I lost them when my computer failed…it’s a long story…but I still remember them. Still today I take pictures of trees that have wonderful shapes or that just inspire me. We planted a redwood in our yard here in Michigan…it’s growing into a beautiful tree that I see from my breakfast table every day.
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Wow a Redwood in Michigan! So it survives the winters? You are such a good story tell
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Yes, it’s called a Dawn Redwood. It loses it’s needles late fall, early winter, and sprouts new ones in the spring. We lost the first one we planted, the bark on the southern side split and it just died. this one struggled when it was young but seems to be established now. It likes water so we try to keep it watered.
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I love redwoods, Carol. This one looks big and happy! I miss my planted redwoods in Sacramento.
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Trees are hard to transplant. Hehe!
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They would die here. Too dry for CA redwoods in Eastern WA.
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Nice choices. I love trees too.
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