[Leica] Tuesday Trees

[Don Dory]

Greetings to all.  It is getting hot in central Texas, temperatures are
already over 39.5 degrees C.  The images presented today were all taken
early in the mornings.  First is a trail bordering Bouldin Creek and
flanked by the main Sante Fe rail line:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/creek+trail+morning+dimness.jpg.html

As found this tree trunk looked scorched but was growing a healthy line of
fungi:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/downed+tree+with+funji.jpg.html

About 2500 paces down this trail I looked up and found the work of
industrious youth:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/treehouse+deep+in+the+woods.jpg.html

Most of the waterways around here are bounded by limestone, when it rains
the waters rise quickly and with the slopes move very quickly.  Usually
when it storms around here the winds come on pretty hard.  So, it is not
uncommon to find brush moved by water and limbs broken by wind:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/high+winds+and+high+water.jpg.html

Just a typical creek bed a week after the rains:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/survival+on+the+creek+bed.jpg.html

My wife volunteers at a equine therapy center, this last image is a grove
fenced off from the horses, although if you look very closely you will see
fencing on the forground tree to keep creatures from munching on the tree:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/shady+grove+in+the+horse+pasture+with+electric+fencing.jpg.html




-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com
-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com