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B&W: Trees
This entry was posted in nature, photo essay, Photography, poetry, weekly photo challenge and tagged black and white, Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge, photo essay, photography, poetry, trees. Bookmark the permalink.
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You have some excellent photos for this week. Thanks for playing. 😀
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Striking photos, and an inspiring poem. I enjoyed this post.
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Thank you. I was wondering if that tree in the third photo was formed the way your described in your post, by growing within a nurse tree.
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It sure does look that way. Where was the photo taken?
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It’s on Astoria’s Cathedral Tree Trail.
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Just to verify… Found this on Oregon Hiker.org:
The Cathedral Tree is a large Sitka spruce in on a forested hillside above Astoria. The tree is purported to be over 300 years old. It is 8 1/2 feet in diameter, 27 1/2 feet in circumference, and over 200 feet high. The buttress-like roots, which provide a shelter for many a visitor, come from the fact that the tree sprouted from a large nurse log which has since rotted away.
A December 2007 windstorm wrought havoc in the Astoria area and toppled many of the trees around the Cathedral which, however, remained standing.
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Oh, cool!! Thanks for sharing this. Even though I grew up in the Warrenton-Astoria area, I hadn’t heard of this tree until last year when I stayed in Astoria a couple of days to play tourist and take photos.
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I didn’t know about it either…it’s on my I want to go there list. Thanks Maggie
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