and to share your knowledge

my knowledge is very limited. but i know what i like.

right now giant sequoias are my favorite tree. very easy to spot, and now that i can spot them, i realize they are actually very common up here. how do they always have such a uniformly-shaped crown? there isn’t necessarily a uniformity between trees, but each individual always seems to look like it was pruned. maybe this goes away when they become actual giants? i need to go to sequoia natl park again. i went once when i was a little kid, and my only memory involving any specific tree was a mama bear standing at the foot of a tree up the trail, and her cubs were climbing up it.

also, weeping sequoias are the opposite as far as uniformity goes. i haven’t decided yet if i like them or if they are just straight up ugly. one i definitely do like (i’m pretty sure it’s a sequoia)is in someone’s front yard in everett, and it looks like the loch ness monster popping it’s head and neck above the other trees in the yard.

this is a giant sequoia at the arboretum. i know up-the-trunk shots have been done to death.

you can’t really tell in the photo, but the bark is soft, and when it gets wet, it’s like touching a sponge. when you push on it, water oozes out. redwoods are like that, too.

http://www.tunneltree.com/tunneltree/tunneltree.html

have you guys seen the huge western red cedar stump at the rest stop off of i-5 north of tulalip? old postcards of it from the above site here: http://www.tunneltree.com/tunneltree/NW/drivestump/drivestump.htm

i just saw it for the first time last week. it’s worth seeing, but it kind of just makes me want to see the actual living gigantor western red cedar in the quinault rain forest. that thing is mind-blowing.

here’s a photo of me on the path up to the quinault big cedar:

i don’t know a single thing about banyan trees except that these particular ones are in sarasota, fl:

i can’t find any pics of the quinault cedar that do it justice

i like your picture of the arboretum sequoia

last pic is amazing. thanks

oh look it’s another tree thread for you!

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/30-creepiest-trees-on-earth-pics/1381

kinda cool, mostly weak.

STUFF IN TREES

Ongoing

i’m “into” this oak tree at kinnear park

it looks like a person coming out of the ground.

it also reminds me of this:

http://www.markryden.com/treeshow/index.html