@QMS
Some do not look that old to me. I guess that shows how old I am!

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@QMS

What a priceless collection of truck photos. The last two reflect what I experience of you as self portraits, and maybe the red cab and bunny one as well. Maybe all you need is a new window or two ; ).

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@Sima

in all of her fiery glory!

Until I had time to be 'on time' for the Friday Night Photos. And it turns out, the first friday I'm 'on time' is the trees edition! So here's a pic of one of my trees, taken a few weeks ago, before the leaves went kaputt.

Your pictures of trees are great!

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg Hi SD! GREAT snow pics! Looks wonderful!

I love that Rabbi Heschel quote too!

It is funny how man hates a dead tree. The birds love them. They provide many nesting holes and great perches, they are often full of insects, and often woodpeckers. We are at war against leaving any dead tree standing. Likely a function of lawsuits, but they are valuable habitats, and they are even that way about it here in the middle of nowhere in the country with a tree that could not possibly fall on anything!

take care, be well !

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My favorite winter photo. This snowstorm came out of the blue very quickly and it shut down all the noise as it settled in.

A local park.

Early snow in the Uintas where I love to camp.

I loved walking by this tree even though it was dead. The day after I took the picture it got cut down.

And just for fun here is Sam at the Great Salt Lake.

She had a blast running through the water which was just inches deep. Run, run run….

@snoopydawg

Your favourite winter photo couldn't be more evocative of the season and the silence of snow falling. Thank you.

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My favorite winter photo. This snowstorm came out of the blue very quickly and it shut down all the noise as it settled in.

A local park.

Early snow in the Uintas where I love to camp.

I loved walking by this tree even though it was dead. The day after I took the picture it got cut down.

And just for fun here is Sam at the Great Salt Lake.

She had a blast running through the water which was just inches deep. Run, run run….

@dystopian

The cypress along the river look uniquely beautiful to me.

Hi all, Hey SP!

Great tree photos man! Beautiful! Wonderful stuff!

This was today. We get a brief late fall, but with small flashes of color here and there.

This may be a huge Prairie Flameleaf Sumac, or it is a nut, as Walnut, but never see nuts on it.

These are older pics but show how things look around here now in our late fall.

Lots of the Cypress along river look like this now.

The Buckley Oaks are starting to turn

Saw a few Maples like this in town today.

Our Pecans lost most of their leaves this week. Mesquites are bare as are Sycamores. Much of our tree habitat is Live-Oaks and Juniper, so there is lots green through the winter.

Have good ones all!

Was going to find 'Bare Trees' from Fleetwood Mac...

@orlbucfan

nature has a way of hiding surprises
Janis B used to have a mom in Fla,
but her kids are somewhere in the EU
I think.

good luck orlb'an!

I have to say those old trucks are built like brick sh!thouses. They were built to haul heavy loads and last/be durable. Sure beats the flimsy pick-ups of today even if it is ICE tech (rolling my eyes). I love the fall colored trees and miss the seasons. We don't see much of that down here in the Sandbar Peninsula. Sp, I think jb may have family somewhere near here, and she visits them. I recall her mentioning it in past comments. Anywho, storm season is officially and naturally OVER!!!!!! Hooray!!!!!! Rec'd!!

@Lookout

I love your Christmas wreath on a plate.

Maples and a mountain (chestnut) oak.

Japanese maple out the door.

Leaf art

Trees

Joyce Kilmer
1886 –1918

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

(This poem is in the public domain.)

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest can also lay claim to being a top hiking destinations across all of southwestern NC. This area contains an impressive remnant of virgin forest, representative of the vast Eastern forests that used to stretch from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and beyond. Exceptionally large trees of more than 100 species grow in the rich cove environment.

Thanks for the focus on trees (and I like old trucks too Q)