[Leica] PAW 4 dlridings

[lambroving at worldnet.att.net (William G. Lamb, III)]

Peter,

What a coincidence! I took these at Colonial Williamsburg,
Virginia just after New Years in late afternoon winter light.
Had no clue what they were.

Many Thanks,

William

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/album27/LUG101>

M5, 50.f1.4 ASPH, f5.6 at 1/125th, Portra VC 160

At 01:04 PM 01/31/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>All,
>
>I'm getting in a bit late on this, but
>FWIW, you may be talking about a European
>tree pruning technique called pollarding:
>
>http://www.canoe.ca/HGGardening0201/14_pollarding-ap.html
>
>I have a row of plane trees in front of my
>house and a Basque gardener who came with the house
>ages ago. Every winter he cuts the trees back
>in this fashion, resulting in the characteristic
>clubbed look.
>
>Daniel, this batch of photos is terrific.  It's
>a pleasure to share a slice of your life through
>your superb photographs of place, family and friends.
>
>Peter Choy.
>
>--- Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
>wrote:
>
> > That's because they're cut at the ends every season
> > to keep the branches
> > from extending too much.
> >
> > > From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:15:27 -0500
> > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] PAW 4 dlridings
> > >
> > > Philippe Orlent wrote:
> > >> it's a sycamore (plane-tree), I think.
> > >>>
> > >>> Could you tell me what kind of tree this is ?
> > >>> http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005/05v04-0013.jpg
> > >
> > > Thanks Philippe.  I didn't realize sycamores can
> > look
> > > so bulbous.