Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Majestic trees indeed, Barney. So straight and elegant. Must have been quite something to see a whole forest of them .............. I wonder if they were naturally so well placed, each from the other. Two impressive images now join the other two. Thanks for sharing .............. and giving the history, B. On 30-jan-2006, at 4:46, Bernard Quinn wrote: > > > > > Last week my friend Dick Seabrook told me about a place on the Eastern > Shore of the Chesapeake Bay that was new to me. The place is called > Trap > Pond. It is actually located in Delaware, just off Route 24, east on > Cambridge, Maryland. It is one of the few remaining stands of Bald > Cypress trees in the northern part of the Chesapeake. The only one > that > I know of in this part of the country is located on the Western Shore. > > It is the Battle Creek Cypress Swamp in Calvert County, Maryland. > But, I > digress. My wife Judy and I drove over to Trap Pond on Saturday to > take > a look at it. Here's what I saw. > > > > The most notable thing about Cypress Trees on the Bay today is their > absence. I think that they are wonderful, majestic trees. They have > flared bottoms, like bell bottom jeans. They grow in water. They are > fairly unique. They don't have leaves, they have needles, like pine > trees. The needles are short. But, unlike Pine trees they shed their > needles in the fall, like hard wood trees. They are hardy, and the > heart > wood of a Bald Cypress Tree is very resistant to rot. This has not > proven to be good news for these trees. > > > > When the settlers from England first arrived on the Bay in the late > 1600"s Cypress, Pine, and Oak trees were numerous. I have read that > there were Bald Cypress trees which were ten and fifteen feet in > circumference. These wonderful trees were all cut down long ago to > make > boats, houses, and what have you. The old timers say that if you know > where to look you can still see the ghosts, the stumps, of these trees > just under the surface of the water at low tide. I've never seen one, > though. > > > > www.leica-gallery.net/barney/image-91379.html > > > > www.leica-gallery.net/barney/image-91380.html > > > > > > Barney > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information