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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tree Update: Later in the Afternoon

Dogwood fall

A rainy morning broke free! But I doubt my dogwood will shine with red wine color this year. It’s been too warm and too dry for too long.

royal red maple fall

I totally missed my royal red maple this fall, not that it has any fall color to speak of. Of all my trees, it loses its leaves earliest and fastest.

dawyck purple beech fall

My little dawyck purple beech is doing well in her little pot by the kitchen window.

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She’s a coppery-yellow this fall. Not sure if that’s typical though, since this year is so weird.

Why so many tree pictures all of a sudden?

I got a new lens for my camera and the absolute best place to test any new camera equipment is the way I learned to use ALL my camera equipment — in nature where the light is forgiving and the subject unconditionally cooperative and patient.

;)

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 5:33 pm  

Friday, May 11, 2007

Beauty and the Weed

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I took this picture of my little dawyck purple beech on April 28. I love how the new leaves are so fuzzy. It makes me wonder if the tiny hairs on the ends of the leaves serve as some protection from a predator, some bug that can’t get a grip. In any case, I love looking at her spring leaves because they are so delicate and beautiful. And I’m happy she made it through the winter, and so far survived the predator that got my gingkoes.

The beech sits in a little pot underneath the kitchen window. I’ve been blogging about her progress ever since she arrived in the mail back on May 6th last year. And *gasp!* the other day, I was sitting in the computer room when Mike knocked on the window holding up the pot. “What is this?” he said.

Remembering my ill-fated gingkoes, I jumped up from my chair and with a pained look said, “That’s my beech tree!”

“What should I do with it?” he shouted through the glass.

Um, lemme see, “How ’bout you put her back underneath the kitchen window?”

She still looks like a weed to him.

posted by Julie Walton Shaver at 9:45 am  

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