Douglas Fir and Snow
Today begins our first week in 2009.
January promises to be filled with transition on a domestic and global scale. I found myself drawn to a favorite reading topic – trees. They are monuments to the steady march of time. The book I am reading is Richard Preston’s The Wild Trees. These wild trees are the coastal redwoods of California – living beings that do not exist on our earthly scale of time or size.
This week I’d like to share with you some tree photos. I live with Douglas Firs, so I begin there.
In its first twenty years of life, a coast redwood can grow from a seed into a tree that’s fifty feet tall. In its next thousand years it grows faster, adding mass at an accelerating rate. A redwood can go from a seed to a big tree in about six hundred years. Around age eight hundred, which is the end of its youth, it may reach its maximum height – its thirty-something-stories height. – Richard Preston
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You captured one of my favorite things in the world – fresh snow on trees.
This reminds me so much of riding the chairlift at Crystal Mountain on a rare, sunny day following a fresh snow.
Thanks.
Ah, the memories.
You’re a master of light and shadow. A wonderful picture.
Thank you – believe it or not those trees are what I see out my front door!