[Leica] Tuesday Trees

[Don Dory]

Greetings to all.  This week is mostly from a walk on one of Austin's Green
Belts which are essentially paths created along creek beds that were
originally cut for sanitary sewer lines.  (Creek beds are easy places to
dig and are a natural slope)  First is a pair of trees on a limestone rock
face:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/twins+at+the+rock+face.jpg.html

An unfortunate tree that supports lichens:

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

When the rains come the water in the creek gets enough of a current to
knock trees over:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/root+ball+at+Barton+Creek.jpg.html

Looking up from the trail:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/old+snag+with+clouds.jpg.html

When there is enough soil the junipers can form groves:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/Junipers+in+a+thicket.jpg.html

Last, for a long time a subculture of eastern europeans operated a cedar
post industry in central Texas.  The cedar was naturally resistant to pests
and made great fence posts and lumber.  This last image is a fence post
down south near San Antonio that has been in the ground since the 1890's or
so:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/juniper+makes+a+great+fence+post.jpg.html

All the best.

-- 
Don
don.dory at gmail.com