Tag Archives: Forests

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Reblog: Reddish Rainbow

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Reddish Rainbow I thought this was a little unusual for a rainbow … lots of the reds and not so much (if any) blues and greens. This is looking …

Reddish Rainbow

I love this amazing and very unusual rainbow photo from Allan J Jones Photography. To see more of Allan’s beautiful pictures, please click the link above. His site is well worth a visit.

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Reblog: #ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

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This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

A beautiful Forest of Dean picture from Stuart Aken. Please click the link above to read about the forest and to see more of Stuart lovely landscape photography.

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Reblog: #ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

Another beautiful picture of the Forest of Dean, courtesy of Stuart Aken. Please click the link above to view more of Stuart’s lovely landscape photography.

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#ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024:

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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024:

A beautiful photo from Stuart Aken showing the River Wye, Gloucestershire, UK. Please click the link above to read Stuart’s comments about the condition of this river.

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If a Tree Falls in the Woods …

… can you count the rings?

While we were hiking on Haida Gwaii, we saw where a dead tree had fallen across the trail and the part blocking the path had been removed.

We tried counting the rings to see if we could get a sense of its age; as we got closer to the middle, the rings were very close together and it was difficult to tell exactly.

We were able to determine that at a minimum, there were 150 rings, so this tree was standing when Alexander Mackenzie was prime minister of Canada and Queen Victoria was still occupying the throne and would continue to do so for another 27 years. My grandparents hadn’t been born and my great-grandparents were teenagers! Such realisations always remind me to enjoy my life; after all, we’re not here for very long.

Comments are closed on this post because we have company coming. Happy August.

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Rainforest Scenes from Haida Gwaii

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Rainforests are such interesting (and damp!) places. Here are a few photos of some of my favourites.

I wasn’t able to find out what type of mushrooms these are, but they remind me of mussel shells.
New trees growing out of a nursery log.
Wild honeysuckle. We saw a number of large honeysuckle bushes growing in the rainforest. There are also lots more growing in the village of Masset, so I’m not sure if wild ones have migrated to town or cultivated ones have migrated to the forest. Their scent was heavenly.
The underside of a large stump showing part of the intricate root system. We couldn’t find any evidence of the fallen tree, and maybe it has already been consumed by the forest, but it must have been very tall and large.
Moss and lichen have engulfed many of the lower limbs of this tree but the upper branches are more exposed to light and overall, the tree seems to be healthy.
I love this scene and find it very representative of how the rainforests on Haida Gwaii appear. But I also think that it could be in one of the Harry Potter books!

Happy Tuesday.

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#ScenicSaturday July 27th 2024:

This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday July 27th 2024:

A beautiful Stuart Aken woodland photo showing the interplay between light and dark in the Forest of Dean. Many thanks for sharing your lovely nature photos, Stuart.