Cherry Blossoms in Macon County.
Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trees. Show all posts
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
The Tree
The Tree by Bobby Coggins
If this tree could speak, what would it tell us?
Would it remember generations who climbed and played on it?
Would it remember the parades that marched by, year after year?
Would it remember the rains, the storms, the lightning and the snow?
Would it remember other trees that are no longer here?
Or would it remain silent, knowing that spoke loudest of all?
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Variations on a Reflection
Variations on processing a recent photo I took of Little Tennessee Rive in the Franklin Greenway along the Morris Trace. Clicking on the images will open a new tab or window to a larger version.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Saturday Silhouette
Taken last Saturday on Whiteside Mountain.
I am still in recovery mode from this trip and from helping a friend move this week.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
WCU Cherry Blossoms
I shot this video last year of the Cherry Blossoms on the campus of Western Carolina University. Unfortunately, I was busy this year and didn't have the time to stop and check them out. Maybe next year I'll make time for it...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Even squirrels take breaks
This little squirrel had been very busy ferrying walnuts up this tree to it's nest all morning and I grabbed this shot of it taking a short break on a lower limb of the tree. Ten minutes later, the little fella was back at it again, ferrying nuts up the tree.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Fall Colors As Seen From Space
As you can see above, fall colors are visible even from space!
You can download the original 7 MB photo, taken one year ago today, from NASA's Earth Observatory.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Chestnuts!
I accidentally posted a photo essay meant for my photo blog over here earlier about the Chestnuts in my yard. I have moved it to it's proper location.
Check it out.
Check it out.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Scenes From A Rainy Morning Part III
This courtyard tree has been a subject of mine before. I left the shutter open for two seconds with an ISO Speed of 400.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
More Fall Foliage
Another photo from the western end of Macon County.
Posting will likey be light this weekend as I am analyzing the election returns by precinct, and composing an essay to relay what I find.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Looking Up
I took this photo looking straight up at the base of the bulding into the tree, which was in sunlight while I was in shadow.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Dawn Redwood In Autumn Attire
The needle-like leaves on this deciduous tree are green during the spring and summer, and turn a lovely reddish color in the fall, and (over the course of a few days) then they all fall off the tree. One person I know calls it "The Sneezing Tree" because of the speed with which the needles fall off every autumn.
Here is an interesting website devoted to the tree.
And some interesting facts from my copy of Michael Dirr's "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants":
- It can grow 50 feet in 15 to 20 years.
- leaves are bright green changing to brown in fall; can be an excellent orange-brown to red-brown, coloration is as good in South as in the North
- The genus was described by Miki in 1941 from fossils discovered in Japan in Lower Pilocene strata. Extant specimens were found growing at the edges of rice paddies by T. Kan in China in the same year, and natives of the area call the shui-sa, or "water fir".
- This tree has been growing and reproducing for 100 million years, and has been returned to North America by horticulturists after a 15 million year absence.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Flame Tree
I took this at the entrance to Western Carolina University yesterday morning, having waited half an hour for the sun to emerge from the fog long enough to get this shot of a tree that looked like it was on fire.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Early Fall Color
The temperatures have been very cool during the later half of August and all of September...and the colors have been sporadically beautiful on a tree by tree basis.
It's as if each tree is on it's own schedule for changing color and losing their leaves.
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