couple cottonwoods poking above the fog
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The best day of the year for me visiting Petersburg, IL.
This is a 275 year-old Quercus macrocarpa (Bur oak).

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Dax

That fog shot is pretty spectacular.

This here is a nice Live Oak near where we live. It started snowing so I figured I'd pass by and take a picture.

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Nice, we're getting several seasons worth here.

It's a rarity that it snows here thankfully. That picture was taken at the start of the year I think.

A highland rainforest in Guatemala at about 2000 metres on Volcan Pacaya. There were some nice birds nest ferns around. This is quite a popular tourist volcano; I was there in May 2009.

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Is that birds nest fern a common epiphyte on trees there?

Yes, we have them here as well in rainforests and they look much the same although they are probably different species.

Western Juniper, 6000' Tahoe National Forest:
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Fantastic photos! They are a pleasure to look at. LKZ, where did your nice fog shot go?

I still can see my pic, so maybe it was something on your end.
I'll bump this topic with some more pics, hopefully others put up some cool ones, too.
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cypress swamp
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Here's a couple of weeping Japanese Maples in my garden.
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Rough-Barked Arizona Cypress from Big Bend National Park, elevation ~ 6,500 ft. Somewhat unusual descending branch structure in a southern drought-resistant conifer.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://s689.photobucket.com/albums/vv258/scotjute/?action=view&current=1262100541.jpg&newest=1

Near Carson Pass, Sierra Nevada

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Here's a fave - there is a snag in the middle of the backyard, it is a long dead Pinus resinosa that was left standing after Norway maples were removed a few years back. I was thrilled when Eastern bluebirds decided to raise 2 broods this summer in a woodpecker hole in this snag.

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Lots of great pictures on here. This is a rather large double leadered loblolly pine with a nice and wide crotch.

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Same day:
Liriodendron tulipifera
The Ann Rutledge Tulip Poplar - Abraham Lincoln's gal. This tree has a lot of history.

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It was a beautiful fall day at Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor, New York. The sun backlit the yellow colored maple leaves making this photo one of my favorite tree pix from 2009.

FataMorgana

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Old growth Hemlock forest in Michigan's upper peninsula.

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tj

Here is a link that might be useful: Other Sylvania pics

Here's one more favorite from 2009.

Without a remote on a camera, it takes two people to get a photo from this view.

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Great pics everyone!!

That area near Carson Pass has felt many of my footfalls, encased in snowshoes.

I can't choose one favorite, so here are a couple:

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Daughter Payne in Muir Woods

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Winter Park, Colo

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Backpacking thru Tripod Fire aftermath, Pasayten WA

Good fotos upthread, surely.

Dan

That double sided cave in the redwood adds some character.

I was just reading about that Tripod fire in a book the other night, while on the stair stepper at 24 hour fitness.

Those trunks look like a bunch of giant black spears.

Didn't really know the extent of the fire going in, never been in one's aftermath anywhere near as large. Stand-clearing all the way thru, and crowned into the Abies and Picea at the edges. All the P. contorta above ~3500' in that area dead from fire or MPB. Right about that time of the fire, the beetles moved to the Engelmann and those are almost all dead past ~8" DBH, so now they are starting in on the P. monticola. Didn't see any in the Abies. Death a companion in that - events moving faster than the trees.

Several years ago we were in Cathedral PP in B.C. not too far from there, and driving in we saw many hundreds of thousands of acres felled by MPB, maybe a million, then cut out (source of the 'softwood lumber wars' in the '90s). Abies and several woodies and many forbs racing uphill following the recent warming, LIA glaciers beating them. Fascinating place.

Dan

Here I am in front of the largest Thuja plicata. Most of it is dead, but there is some green near the top. It is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Wa. St. The picture was taken several years ago.
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This is a mountain ash taken in my yard.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://i799.photobucket.com/albums/yy276/petunia_2006/favorite%20trees/075.jpg

A street scene in Canberra, with Eucalyptus mannifera

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These Cyathea australis treeferns will tolerate full sun, but don't really enjoy it, as you can see here.

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Aiken, SC.
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Botann wrote ...

"Here I am in front of the largest Thuja plicata. Most of it is dead, but there is some green near the top. It is located on the Olympic Peninsula in Wa. St. The picture was taken several years ago.
Largest Thuja plicata in the world"

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Last December, I saw that one for the first time. Just has a scrap of life left. Went up to Quinault during the cold snap. The Kalaloch cedar was the one I visited first, then went down near Quinault area.

Nice photos everyone.

This is an old rubber tree I snapped in the Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires. I think it's around 150 years old.

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I need to link to one of my favorites - a huge Sycamore located in a school yard in Lebanon Ohio. It's so large that had to get far away to capture the whole tree and you can barely see my wife against the trunk

Here is a link that might be useful: