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Posted by Septic (U3282615) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Flowers/Trees was the pick for this month....
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Howdy, Septic.
Deconstructed trees:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Thanks, Septic, for organising us so well each month. I'm looking forward to some autumnal offerings.
Dirigibles - loved yours :- )
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Thanks, FAB.
Something autumnal:
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Posted by Auntie Clockwise (U8040384) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
An old one to bookmark
Oh dear where do I start. Flowers and trees. I voted for this but I've got *loads* of both. I could almost keep us going for a whole year, not just a month!!
Think that's enough for now!!
here's some flowers taken through a window on a very rainy day
I like that Auntie Molly. :O)
Thank you hicken! I love that white lavatera of yours, the sun shining through the petals is lovely.
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Posted by chicken_hot_pot (U8480346) on Sunday, 2nd October 2011
Thanks. I like that one too. :O)
Some from Colorado
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Monday, 3rd October 2011
That's very effective, Auntie Molly - looks like something by a French Impressionist.
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Monday, 3rd October 2011
looks like something by a French Impressionist.Â
I thought that, too :- )
Jane, I'd b interested to hear a little about the woods. Looks a lovely spot.
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Posted by Ex Tram Driver (U5244457) on Monday, 3rd October 2011
A good selection already, with La Bez's woods being particularly intriguing.
Last years' Autumn album to bookmark
plus a couple of others from the archive while I ponder collecting and posting others
XTD
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Monday, 3rd October 2011
Hi XTD,
I remember when you posted those before. I enjoyed them then, so pleased that you have posted them again. Thanks. :- )
looks like something by a French Impressionist.Â
I thought that, too :- )
Jane, I'd b interested to hear a little about the woods. Looks a lovely spot.Â
FAB - it is indeed a lovely spot, so lovely that, after 9 years of visiting at least twice a year we are in the proces of acquiring a second - potential retirement spot - home out there.
The pics were taken on a 4 mile hike that Elder Berry and I did down Beaver Creek Mountain in August - we all took the chair lift up - while the "boys" were messing about on mountain bikes. The woods are a mix of pine and aspen - the white trunks. Aspen have the distinction of being the world's largest living organism, they are not single trees but part of a network sharing the same, huge, root system. Asprin was manufactured from the bark and you can use the white powder that covers it as a antiseptic/pain reliever for a first aid measure.
Glad we didn't come across the tree in picture 2 much sooner - the claw marks were /very/ recent and had us looking nervously upwards. They circled the entire tree at different levels where the bear had obviously dug it's claws in to grip while climbing.
Sadly a lot of the pine trees in the Rockies are dying because of infestation by a pine beetle - tourists who don't know (and who clearly don't know that pines are supposed to be evergreens either!!) are often heard to remark on the early "Fall colour" which is actually the trees turning brown as they die. Whole swathes of the mountains are covered in brown trees and it is increasing steadily each year we visit. Unfortunately the only cure is likely be a forest fire to cull the dead ones, although they are trying methods to control it.
Oh, and the yellow patches in picture 3 are the result of deer and possibly elk chomping on the bark
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Monday, 3rd October 2011
Thanks Jane :- )
I went back and had another look for the aspen trunks in the photos. I wondered if the yellow patches were *all* bear damage - perhaps it's better that they're not 8- /
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
No bears here:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
How very English :- )
(Now you're going to tell me it's Welsh!)
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
No, English is right!
Dorset in particular.
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Posted by goldilocks exits pursued by bears (U1859740) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
That's an interesting tree, Dirig. It seems to have been coppiced at some point in its history, so I would hazard a guess that it is possibly a relict of an ancient hedgerow.
You can take the survey work from the surveyor, but you can't take the surveyor out of the landscape..........
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
Thanks goldi. I didn't spot that. Interesting.
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Posted by goldilocks exits pursued by bears (U1859740) on Thursday, 6th October 2011
Often you will see old oaks in pastureland that have been pollarded in the past. These were often boundary markers.
This one has multiple stems arising from low down, so would appear to be coppiced. I can't see it being a survival of a coppiced woodland, as it would probably have gone with the rest, but as a large stool within a hedgerow it may well have survived.
Only my take on the possibilities........
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Friday, 7th October 2011
Thanks, goldilocks - that's very interesting.
It stands alone in a large field, giving shade and shelter.
Here's another old favourite:
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Posted by chicken_hot_pot (U8480346) on Friday, 7th October 2011
Oh that's lovely.
Three I took today.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Saturday, 8th October 2011
Thanks, c-h-p. I was hoping you'd post a typical French avenue.
Here's a yew in a churchyard:
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Posted by chicken_hot_pot (U8480346) on Saturday, 8th October 2011
My pleasure Dirigibles,
Here's a real French avenue one for you.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Saturday, 8th October 2011
Lovely, C-h-p, and very typical, i think. My memories are probably based on Monet's poplars as much as on real life!
Here's an old one from France:
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Posted by chicken_hot_pot (U8480346) on Saturday, 8th October 2011
It's one of the avenues in town and looks lovely in the spring summer when the leaves are green. It looks a bit straggly now. :0(
That's got to be in the south, Palm trees don't grow easily in the north. A lovely photo.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Sunday, 9th October 2011
Thanks, c-h-p, I was quite pleased with the effects in this one, too:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Sunday, 9th October 2011
Great French avenues, chp and Dirigibles.
About a month or so back I stayed in University accommodation in one of the terraces on a square north of Gray's Inn. The college had a private garden in the square opposite with the largest plane trees I have seen:
And here's one from the Indian summer a couple of weeks back on one of the Dutch islands:
Some flowers.....
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Posted by Auntie Clockwise (U8040384) on Sunday, 9th October 2011
I keep meaning to post on this thread. Trouble is, I have so many pictures of flowers and trees but most have probably been posted before. Anyway, flower
and tree
Will continue to trawl through my Photobucket albums and maybe take some new photos as well.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Monday, 10th October 2011
One last French one, then it'll be back to Dorset:
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Posted by chicken_hot_pot (U8480346) on Monday, 10th October 2011
That is *so* typically French Dirigibles. I drove down a road like that the other weekend. I would have loved a photo of it, but I was driving!
The best of both worlds - a flowering tree.
Syd
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Monday, 10th October 2011
Here as promised, an avenue of Dorset trees, snapped on the way home this afternoon:
(I wasn't driving, and we were going a bit more quickly than would have been ideal!)
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Monday, 10th October 2011
Are those beech? Unusual for an avenue.
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Monday, 10th October 2011
Well spotted, FAB. Yes, a beech avenue near Kingston Lacy and Badbury Rings, Dorset.
I haven't caught it at its best - Ermintrude of this parish has some much better shots, I'm sure. It looks particularly lovely in spring and autumn.
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Monday, 10th October 2011
It looks particularly lovely in spring and autumn.Â
Yes, I can imagine.
No beech avenues around here, but I have some photos ... Ah, now there's a thought :- ) Will have to wait, though.
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Posted by goldilocks exits pursued by bears (U1859740) on Monday, 10th October 2011
Ooh - I know that road, Dirig.
Not sure that I can post any photos to this month's subject. So many of my pics are of trees and flowers that I don't think I could pick any out.
I'll think about it.
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Posted by willywoanty (U14258512) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
If anybody sees XTD, would you ask him to contact me via peets please?
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
Another famous avenue of trees:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
And some beeches. I love the way the strong straight stems are distorted into fluid shapes:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
And a sort-of anvenue of beeches:
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
Wow, three wonderful photos, FAB.
Loved them all, the striking silhouettes against a night sky, the beautiful snowy avenue, and the clever effects in the 'green' one.
These trees are at the bottom of my garden:
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Posted by Flightless Anachronistic Bird (U6437464) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
Stuning photo there, Dirigibles :- )
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Posted by Dirigibles was here (U7278225) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
Thanks, FAB, that's very kind.
Anyone seen Scoobs?
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Posted by willywoanty (U14258512) on Tuesday, 11th October 2011
From my library. A day at Sheffield Park, East Sussex.
It was the first time I had used my Digital SLR and I found that the image stabilising feature on the lens merely opened the apeture and over exposed the image.
So, in future I'll be using my trusty tripod.
That is, when I can find the time to get out with the kit. Looking after Management is a full time, full on occupation and I have precious little time to myself, let alone a day photographising.
This is a good thread full of really wonderful pictures.
Well done everybody - keep it up.
willy.
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