What do you think of trees?

I love trees, I've lost many big oak trees due to disease and it is very sad and expensive to have them removed.
I just want to thank Ruthanne for this wonderful thread and to all that posted the beautiful photos, they are outstanding!
 

Jackie23 said:
I love trees, I've lost many big oak trees due to disease and it is very sad and expensive to have them removed.
I just want to thank Ruthanne for this wonderful thread and to all that posted the beautiful photos, they are outstanding!
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You are very welcome Jackie! It's a nice, light, topic 😉
 
I have always loved trees. Most of this lot still has the original big pine trees and red maples. There are three types of pines, and one has to look closely to tell them apart: Long Leaf Pines. Loblolly Pines, and Black Pines. It is common for people in this area to remove way too many of these old pines. Then they discover that during thunderstorms, the tall pines take the lightning strikes. Installing a lightning protection system on their homes is expensive. In the 28 years we have lived here, I have lost six tall pines to lightning strikes and one to a tornado that twisted a two-foot diameter tree off and tossed it aside like a twig.

There is an assortment of Crape Myrtles. Wax Myrtles, Pignut Hickories, and what not including around 60 Azaleas (white, red, and pink.)

The wildlife enjoys my backyard, and I like having them.

I have added seven Japanese Maples of four different species including one dwarf. Not only are they pretty (red, green and golden) but they are excellent for erosion control.

The nine Tea Olive trees bring a wonderful scent to the yard and provide a visual barrier to the junk that my neighbor on the left often drags into his driveway.

I put in two live oaks including one that was delivered with a four-hundred-pound root ball. They are great trees and replaced two River Berch trees that were very messy and died on their own. They were, however, very good for erosion control.

Two Water Oaks that are very good for erosion control wand replaced a Weeping Willow that died on its own,

Two Redbud trees that are doing fine along with three white dogwoods, and two Cherry Blossum Trees that are struggling a bit.

In many ways, I am a "Tree Collector."
 

Pecos said:
I have always loved trees. Most of this lot still has the original big pine trees and red maples. There are three types of pines, and one has to look closely to tell them apart: Long Leaf Pines. Loblolly Pines, and Black Pines. It is common for people in this area to remove way too many of these old pines. Then they discover that during thunderstorms, the tall pines take the lightning strikes. Installing a lightning protection system on their homes is expensive. In the 28 years we have lived here, I have lost six tall pines to lightning strikes and one to a tornado that twisted a two-foot diameter tree off and tossed it aside like a twig.

There is an assortment of Crape Myrtles. Wax Myrtles, Pignut Hickories, and what not including around 60 Azaleas (white, red, and pink.)

The wildlife enjoys my backyard, and I like having them.

I have added seven Japanese Maples of four different species including one dwarf. Not only are they pretty (red, green and golden) but they are excellent for erosion control.

The nine Tea Olive trees bring a wonderful scent to the yard and provide a visual barrier to the junk that my neighbor on the left often drags into his driveway.

I put in two live oaks including one that was delivered with a four-hundred-pound root ball. They are great trees and replaced two River Berch trees that were very messy and died on their own. They were, however, very good for erosion control.

Two Water Oaks that are very good for erosion control wand replaced a Weeping Willow that died on its own,

Two Redbud trees that are doing fine along with three white dogwoods, and two Cherry Blossum Trees that are struggling a bit.

In many ways, I am a "Tree Collector."
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Wow I felt like I was in your backyard for a minute there. I really enjoyed all the details! What a lovely backyard you must have.
 
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Trees are the best areas to fresh powder ski because within less wind of tall confers, snowflakes flutter down more softly creating softest snow and the shade keeps snow less sun affected. Above, a frame capture off a youtube video from 3 weeks ago after 17 inches of cold dry snow overnight. Note the GoPro shadow that is atop my helmet.

Picturesque trees are a favorite photography subject here in California I actively explore for. Below in Desolation Wilderness west of Lake Tahoe at about 8k elevation, gnarly ancient Sierra junipers.

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A new subdivision removed all the trees prior to building. There weren’t a lot, mainly on the outer edges. Ironically the layout of acreage didn’t permit for building in those spots and now the shade and noise break and aesthetics of the area are gone. Also the value as lots with trees would sell for more.

hollydolly said:
Did you know that in the UK it's illegal to erect Billboards along the sides of the roads..?
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We have that in BC too, except on native land.

Years ago everyone lined up to buy from one peach farming family. The elderly father had dementia, declared the orchard was a nuisance and had it cleared immediately. So sad.

I do wish there was a law that dead trees had to be removed, for fire and falling hazard reasons, off private property in urban/urban fringe areas.
 
This is California's most common oak species, a blue oak, quercus douglasii, on a wind swept ridge that has formed its smooth curving helmet-like shape. During winter dormancy after its deciduous leaves have fallen, is an excellent time to capture a tree's branching and overall canopy form against blue skies. Note how a low trunk branch has bent leeward to brace the tree against the ground. As a kid growing up in Sacramento suburban foothills, we endlessly climbed and played games in oak trees. Another reason I don't mind being called an Earth monkey. 😁 Downsized for web, full image size 7800x5400 pixels.

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These are more wind formed blue oaks in the same park. The left oak has just leafed out while the yet leafless right tree is silhouetted against sky. Note its parasitic mistletoe. The grassland is covered by dense Padres shooting stars. At the frame left edge background are more oaks with some evergreen coast live oaks. In 2 days, this Friday 3/31/23, I plan to revisit this area that is close to its spring wildflower peak. Downsized for web, full image size 6000x4000 pixels.

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