September Photo Challenge - The Woods

backpacker · Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:50 am

Thanks for the comment, when I did Marcy it was raining all day, by the time I summited it was sleeting!! The mist made for a couple good pictures.

Question: do the pictures for this subject have to be taken now?

Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:11 am

nope.

backpacker · Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:18 am

OK thanks,

These two fit the theme:

Lean-to near Lake Colden

Highland Forest

backpacker · Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:57 pm

I saw this tree through the wood in Oxbowl Park today; because the spiral tree is dead it really stood out!
It really is a tree and not a vine!

cbobcat49 · Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:32 am

I've seen that sort of thing happen before on trees. You're sure that's definitely another tree spiraling up like that and not a vine? I always assumed it was a vine that did that.

backpacker · Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:15 pm

I'm 85 - 90% sure that its a tree, when I was playing with the zoom to get a picture you could tell it was a tree. When vines die they normally don't get that light and their vanes show up more.

Next time I'm in the area I'll double check.

Brenda · Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:49 pm

Jim's photo reminded me of this black cherry on our property. I suppose that if you can't outgrow your neighbors, you have to be creative to survive! I apologize for the brightness of the background. We don't get many falls days better than today!

Brenda · Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:56 pm

Not far from that tree grows my favorite tree on the property. It's a huge shagbark hickory. Its DBH has to be 3'. Not the best of conditions to shoot in, but I have to grab the opportunities when I can.

I was playing around with a couple of other photos that I took of this tree:

and looking up (almost abstract):