Trees

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 5:06am

Tuesday 23 OCT 18

"You got it made in the shade, but don't let that tree fall down on you" - Skynard

There's music in those roots!

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Good morning good folks. Wishing us all good things today. May be a bit early to picture bare trees, although the Chestnuts here are already naked. Living with many very old trees. Watching the maniacal winds taking out one then another. More fuel for the wood stove, but such a mess.

I like trees. The shade helps to keep it cooler in the summer. Home for the birds, tree frogs and leaping squirrels. Amazing sounds when the winds whoosh the leaves. And the sight of dancing branches is mesmerizing. Fall raking is a chore, but who needs a gym? The gardens appreciate the mulch.
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The world's largest living organism, the Aspen Pando is shrinking due to ruminators.

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Our canopy makes star gazing a bit of a challenge, but a short stroll opens up new vistas. The biggest dilemma here is: where to put the solar PV panels and solar thermal collectors? Still working on that...
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Leaf your stories below. Namaste

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 7:35am

Howdy folks

Woke this morning to two excellent essays by OPOL and Mark from Queens. This humble piece is little more than a place keeper in comparison. Such as it may be, enjoy the day!

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 7:40am

A Commentary on How Media Markets Alienation

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZswmxq-K1M]

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 8:19am

Hey hey, a cartoon about living

@The Aspie Corner in an alien nation. Ah, the things we miss by tuning out. Thanks Aspie.

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 9:28am

Daria holds up well.

@QMS Especially when you consider how much worse the alienation is today.

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

Submitted by randtntx on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 8:27am

It has been raining here

going on 2 months. This is not the norm. It's beginning to look like a jungle here, the trees think they live in the tropics now.
I love trees as well and as you say, love the sound they make in the wind. When we have very strong winds though, trees can be positively scary.
I think Robert Frost loved trees, given how often he wrote about them.

Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.
I’d like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven...
—From "Birches" by Robert Frost

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 8:48am

Weird weather

@randtntx has caused the trees to wonder: what season is it now? In Vermont, we see them dropping green before coloring. Maybe confused. Even our 130 year old white pines are shedding green needles. What's up with that? Haven't seen that before. What are they trying to tell us is what I want to know.
Cheers
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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 8:37am

Good morning, QMS. Thanks for the Trees and OT. Funny,

that you open with a juxtaposition of trees and music. The UC Botannical garden is running a 4 part lecture series on various trees and woods used in instrument making and the instruments made therefrom.

Heading off to wine country for a couple of days, then back to try to get it together here.
Have a great day.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 9:03am

That's cool

@enhydra lutris Good friend diagnosed with inoperable cancer has gone full into making guitars. Beautiful works of art. Was just a hobby before. Fashioning wood into musical instruments. A fine expression of his two loves.

Submitted by magiamma on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 10:11am

good morning qms...

I like trees too. I was thinking that trees are the lungs of the planet. I am sure someone has already said that. But funny how trees are growing more now that there is more co2 in the air. There will be point beyond which that will not happen. Yes, I wonder too, about how confused everyone must be, the tree people, the four legged people, the two leggeds, well, and the six and eight leggeds too. And all the beings that don't have legs. We are the web. Thanks for the ot and have a good one...

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 10:26am

morning magi

@magiamma Yeah, the trees are doing their honest best to mitigate carbon saturation. I heard it from a very respectable 95 year old maple the other day. And she is sharing the wisdom from all her neighbors as well. Good spirits ride with you today.

Submitted by magiamma on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:11am

old growth redwood...

@QMS
one of six in the pogonip wildlife preserve. I hug it, full body hug, on my walks there. So beautiful.

looking up
Old Growth Redwood and Friends 2_0.jpg

From the other side. There is a rope here that is to far up to reach but I am sure folks have a way...
Pogonip Old Groth Redwood_0.jpg

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:29am

Wow, I get dizzy looking up

@magiamma Our trees are just little sprouts compared to those giants. Imagine they feel your love. I get some amazing vibes standing barefoot on the ground from the roots of this one.

Submitted by randtntx on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:01am

Stumbled upon this

by accident thought others might enjoy:

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:46pm

Nice music

@randtntx became background. Thanks

Submitted by janis b on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:26pm

Thanks for the music randtntx, really enjoying.

@randtntx

Here's one you'll probably enjoy ...

[video:https://youtu.be/mok4filTILs]

Submitted by smiley7 on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:58pm

Hi QMS, the trees make these old mountains a paradise, i can

feel their stress this season, leaves not turning, falling green, what color there is is muddy.

Anyways, love hiking among them especially when they create a cave to pass through. Everyone's talking about this weird season hoping some of those folks begin to take climate collapse seriously.

Cheers for this good topic and fun thread to read; brightens my afternoon.

We've found an attorney to help our young father of three out of his predicament in rural Oklahoma, found him through a reference from an editor of a county newspaper.
Progress made and some relief to his wife, a good friend.

So it's been a good day and your lede set the tone for a better one, thank you.

Submitted by janis b on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 11:06pm

Hi QMS, thanks for the tree theme

I like trees too. This one may be the oldest of the ones that surround me. It is a Puriri, and is very fertile. It produces food almost year ‘round for the birds. The little dots of dark pink you see are its flowers, which the nectar sippers (Tuis) love. Soon the Kereru will get drunk on its seeds and fly into windows. Fortunately they are strong bodied birds, and recover well from their inebriated accidents.

[video:https://youtu.be/lbQst5HZj6E]

Submitted by peachcreek on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 12:11am

Hi QMS.

@janis b From one tree lover to another: have you read the recent book by Richard Powers, "The Overstory"??
It is my favorite book of the past several years and it is all about...trees! (And people and politics and history and love and...but, mostly trees).

Submitted by QMS on Wed, 10/24/2018 - 10:16am

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