[Leica] Tuesday Trees

[Don Dory]

Greetings to all.  These are from a trip near Mt. Rainier.  I have always
admired the ability of life to find a way:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/tenacious.jpg.html

Probably blown down by the wind, I wonder how long this tree has been
decomposing:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/nurse+log.jpg.html

If you go off trail in the forest, it can get pretty gloomy:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/even+third+growth+can+be+gloomy.jpg.html

Probably second growth:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/unmanaged+with+deadwood.jpg.html

Even in favorable conditions it is hard to grow on granite:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/wide+view+foothills+of+Ranier.jpg.html

I don't know what caused this sinkhole, there is no tree remains if it is
what is left of a root ball:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/sinkhole.jpg.html

All the best.

-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com