[Leica] Tuesday Trees

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Greetings to all.  Still hiking in the mountains around Seattle.  This old
tree provides a meal for woodpeckers:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/woodpeckers.jpg.html

I'm not sure what killed these limbs:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/thousand+fingers+reaching.jpg.html

It does rain in the Cascades:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/rain+coming.jpg.html

In this part it appears that the park service does do controlled burns:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/survivied+the+fire.jpg.html

I spent a large part of my childhood next to the Mississippi.  Reading
about the early shipping I couldn't understand the dangers.  Seeing this
log in the Cascades I understood what would happen to a steamboat if it hit
a log like this:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/floating+down+when+it+rains.jpg.html

The center holds:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/heartwood+goes+last.jpg.html

All the best.

-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com