The reflective season...

Dave took off all my old photos with the change over. My journal dissapeared. So I'll be posting more of the same.
This is the other side last summer.

Steve, your garden is glorious.

Not being a very knowledgeable tree person, I can only tell you it is a very old cedar. I would guess that VV or one of you can be more specific.

I love the tree, and it is located in the Land Between the Lakes, maybe about 10 miles from my home. I wander in that area as often as possible because of its beauty and the quiet!!!

Its too bad that a fence is more valuable than tree branches. I hope our friend likes the root exposure. I of course love the essence of Cedar when I walk in the woods. We have an area here that is full of Cedars. I love it too. This is a favorite area Called Ross Cedars here in Montana.

I love the scent as well. I have been watching this tree for several years. It has weathered many storms, some tornadoes and obviously some man made storms.

Every time I go to check on it, I am always afraid it has given up.

I presume that there are lots of cedars still standing in the area. I do have a very nice Port Orford Cedar growing in my windbreak. Always rub a piece of green when I go by it.

Thank you, Resin. I was hoping someone would chime in with the answer.

Ah Resin our source of all knowledge. Thank you also. Juniper certainly can survive the limbing below because the deer in Montana have done this to all native Junipers even in the dryest slopes.

Resin will hate me the cedar I sent was a fir stump. I need to enlarge photos before I send. Here is one of the big guys in Ross cedars.

Well, Sofer, it was my dumb mistake in the first place. And once again, thanks to Resin, I have gleaned more knowledge. But it is fun to learn.

Yes but Resin doesn't respect those who don't acknowledge their mistakes. I want his respect. Well I desire his knowledge anyway.
Anyway I love the ground around these cedars. Look at all the watercress growing in the creek under these giants.

It speaks of peace and contentment. One of those ahhhhhhhhhh moments that you speak of on a sailboat! The older I get the more I think those moments are wasted on the young.

What is that in the lower left, a fern maybe and what??

Your giant cedar, and all old cedars (and junipers) are majestic. I stand in awe.

Here's a real cedar . . . yours aren't cedars at all (cedars only occur naturally in the Old World, Mediterranean region and the western Himalaya)

Resin

That is just fantastic, Resin. A Cedar of Lebanon? in Lebanon?

I can tell by the rocks around that this is near Ephesus on the Turkish peninsula. Right Resin. Actually the only Cedars are on the Pacific coast. Western Red Cedar would kick the butt on any Mediterranean. Though I'm sure you have the details why they are not true Cedars.

Cedrus libani var. stenocoma, at 2,000m altitude on the south slopes of Ak Dag, near Yayla Çavda, Antalya Province, southwest Turkey. About 36°31'N 29°32'E.

Hi Soferdig, - cedar correctly only refers to species in the genus Cedrus. Anything else isn't a cedar.

"The common name Cedar is widely misapplied, especially to species and varieties of Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Cupressus, Juniperus, Libocedrus, and Thuja. This illustrates the importance of the principle adopted by the Joint Committee that a common name properly belonging to one genus should not be used for a plant of another genus, except as part of a compound word." - Harlan P. Kelsey & William A. Dayton, Standardized Plant Names, ed.2, p.95, 1942. American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature; J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pa.

We have plenty of non-cedars here too, Atlantic White not Cedar, Northern White not Cedar, and Virginia/Red not Cedar!

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Don't tell my cedar waxwings!

It seems like we've a panel of trees experts here. Let's hear your thought about this cedar.

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/13399/

Needs more common names.

To begin with: 1. White Cedar, Bead tree, Persian Lilac, Pride of India, Pride of China, Umbrella tree.

Gee Resin I was way off. There must be a fault line running east from the tree. LOL

I still like my old gnarled tree, no matter what its name.

Me too, Sharran.

One down for the count. Others?

Thanks VG....makes me feel much better.

Please call me Victor.

Oh. Of course. Victor.
I enjoy your wit and wisdom, Victor, on your other threads.

Thank you.

Scott - I got another burr oak pic for you this morning.

Nice Al. Your post reads like 'baroque'!

I was going for broke with it.

How about the opposite then?

Very nice.

Too cold!

Great winter pics, Al.

Thanks. That pic is about 25 degrees warmer than the sunrise though Resin.

Good shots Al. I like the cloud forming one. Dew Point 26 on that day. Keep em coming. Now how about a shot of the sunrise from the top of the burr oak? LOL

Steve - I kept waiting for that sun - but it never came.

How about an eagle's nest in a cottonwood?