Guy, I grew this oak from an acorn I collected at a cemetery two years ago. The cemetery is full of many species of oak, so it is likely a hybrid. Each year the foliage has emerged this nice pink, and the fall color is really good too. Is this unusual for oaks?
Scott
Scott, just when I think your pictures can't get any better, you suprise me again. You show me stuff I've never seen before and you can't get any better than that in my book. Ken
Thanks a lot, Ken! I am having a ball with this digital camera. Almost every night I'm charging the battery and every day heading out to capture little bits of spring. The glory of digital is that I can literally go out there and shoot 100 pictures, come inside and download them, delete the bad ones, and post the good ones.
One of these days, perhaps, I'll get a good version of Adobe or something and be able to manipulate bad shots into good ones, but I'm not sure that if that really interests me. For now, I'm pretty happy with just getting a decent shot of something the way it really looks.
In another thread Joulz talked about using her website (and photography) to capture the seasons. I am doing that too, but I'm also enjoying shooting really tight close-ups of plants in all stages. Mostly I'm doing this to help me learn to identify plants better--something I'm not very good at, but it's also giving me an appreciation of things that otherwise would've gone unnoticed. Those pink anthers on the Aronia picture is a good example of that. Not to mention having to look up what those pink things are called in Dirr so I could post the word "anthers" here and sound reasonably intelligent.
Additionally, doing this is prompting me to visit local parks and arboretums on an almost weekly (sometimes daily) basis, which means I'm becoming much more familar with many plants, and as these plants progress through the season.
Basically, you can take my Nikon Coolpix 4800 when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of it! Or, if you're my wife and beguile me with your wicked charms.
Scott
Scott, you should join PBase on the www. I have truly enjoyed it.
Many oaks do that, but they vary a lot. It's one of the great unsung attributes of the genus. Some of the best and most dependable (of the common species) are Quercus velutina, Q. lyrata, and Q. nuttallii (syn. Q. texana), but yours is none of those.
Guy S.
Scott, I borrowed my BIL's Nikon Coolpix 5600 this past week. It takes truly awesome pictures. I even borrowed the disk and the USB cord so I could download the pics. I haven't ventured that far yet though. Question on yours....does it say "Photo Blurry" then ask if you want to delete? That part was driving me crazy when I was snapping pics of some red bellied snake. If all else fails, read the owners manual?
Hi Terry,
No, mine does not say that. It just lets me continue blithely on my way taking blurry shot after blurry shot. I sure wish there was a manual focus override!
LOL,
I've never heard of Pbase. Your link doesn't work. Would you mind trying again?
Scott
Yes, but Scott, when you're taking a picture of a snake and the one holding it is NOT having fun doing the holding and I keep saying, oh ___ , it's blurry, let me try again......lol.....
Terry
I don't know how to do a link to my PBase gallery site without it being edited out of here. it is the usual three w's with a dot, then PBase followed by a dot and com/
My name is septembermorn. That should bring you to all my galleries.
