Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Old growth

 

Here is Judy when we were at Eagle Lake with a big ponderosa pine.

 

The jefferson pine is a little bigger.

 

Now we’re at the coastal redwoods.

 

The scale here is just out of hand.  There is no way to represent it in a photo.  I shot a video of one tree, to capture as much of it as I could.  (Judy is standing at the base of this tree too.)

 

coastal redwoods

 

There are at least two kinds of redwoods in California.  The coastal redwoods are the tallest ones.  The giant sequoias over in the sierras are the ones with the most massive trunks.  We read that the coastal redwood achieves most of its height in the first hundred years.  Then it spends the next thousand or two filling out.

 

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