A Knotty Tree

By Sacred Heart parish

I tried to research tree diseases but came up short. Hopefully someone can tell me why this tree looks like this.

Silver Ghost Lacebark Pine and Big Bugs

At The Dawes Arboretum Newark, Ohio.

Silver Ghost Lacebark Pine
Three Big Ants and Roy

Winter Tree in Florida

A Winter Tree in Florida on the Golf Course.

Ardent blog follower and witty commenter dc, captured this winter tree in Florida. It was in response to my silent Sunday post of the winter Tree in Pittsburgh.

dc suggested that I photograph my tree in the summer which I thought was a good idea. Thank you

dc guest blog photo of Winter Tree in Florida

Silent Sunday

Winter Tree

Heart of Light

Light through Japanese maple leaves

Night Tree

A Bald Cypress in Clintonville Ohio

A deciduous conifer -the Bald Cypress
In Whetstone Park by the playground and library

I used the inaturalist Seek app to identify this magnificent tree

This tree has inspired much poetry and prose over the centuries due to its melancholy and mysterious appearance. Longfellow refers to its “towering and tenebrous boughs” that “waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals” in his 1847 poem, Evangeline. Naturalist John Muir in his book Thousand-Mile Walk refers to “the dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything” and states that “night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness.”- click text for ArborDay source

Closeup

Budding Pinecones

At the playground in Upper Arlington

Two different types of pine trees in Ohio.

Everything you want to know about Conifer Cones is here

North of Columbus – in Mark snd Erika’s backyard .

Lightning Scars on the Maple Tree’s Trunks

Sunday afternoon, I was north of the city, picking up a finished T-shirt quilt for my son’s birthday, but that’s another post. While we chatted in the front yard, I admired the beautiful plantings of bleeding hearts in bloom and giant leafed hosta plants, Lisa told me her enormous three-trunked Maple tree (sadly), has to be taken down. Cut down before, as one arborist consulted said, before it came down into her living room. The tree has been struck by lightning several times. She pointed out the scars from the lightning strikes. I’d never seen this phenomenon before.

Like a snake climbing up the trunk

Japanese Maple Leaves

Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) after the rain on Sunday. The colors were so rich.

“The Japanese word “momiji” is sometimes applied to this tree in its native land. The word is said to have two meanings, both of them appropriate for the description of this wonderful tree: “baby’s hands” and “becomes crimson leaves.” Arbor Day Foundation website