James, I think the error was before Google Groups. If you look at the name of the attachments, they are single word names. Some programs do not recognize names with spaces in their title. Perhaps it was the email program or a photo editor program that cut off the name. I test a series using a tiny gif file and the Google groups site reflected the name with the gap in it fine.
Ed "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. " Robert Frost (1874-1963). Mountain Interval. 1920. ----- Original Message ----- From: James Parton To: ENTSTrees Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 1:32 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Chestnut Grove, Hominy Valley Overlook BRP Ed, ENTS. Does anyone know why the Google list no longer shows the complete file names on the photos. I find this annoying. For example the last one is titled " The Golden Wood ". JP On Nov 8, 1:27 pm, James Parton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Last Thursday while at work Cecil Harris told me of a chestnut he had seen on the Blue Ridge Parkway and tried to give me a rough location of where it was at. Yesterday I went up to try to find it. I checked two overlooks on the right and found no chestnuts but I did find a Chinquapin ( Chinkapin ). It was the first one I had found with nuts in years. However the shrublike tree had considerable blight damage including cankers, dead limbs and the tell-tell orange spots of the fungus. This tree had thinner leaves without the lighter colored underside that I knew from the Chinquapins in our yard from my Starnes Cove days. I have read that open-grown trees versus forest grown ones exibit some differences. Maybe this is one of them. > > I found a grove of nearly a dozen chestnut trees below the Hominy Valley Overlook at 3980ft above sea level. These may be the trees that Cecil saw. They are located in a clearing below the overlook among briar bushes and other weeds. Naturally this made navigating and measuring the trees difficult. All of the chestnuts had considerable blight damage with some having dead stems. However I found two that had managed to bear. However among the burrs I found no nuts. However I noticed that the attachment scars on the inside of some of the burrs was quite large. A possible sign of viable nuts. The fact that they are two nut bearing trees close to one another may mean that cross-pollination could take place. I found no nuts though. Still, critters could have carried them off. > > I measured the sprout ring around an old root collar where an old stump once was. It was 9ft 8 1/2in in circumference. This gives me some idea of what size the original tree was before the blight killed the main trunk. It was just over 3ft in diameter! The largest sprout is 1ft 9 1/2in cbh. The tree sprout is 29.53 feet tall. It is one of the taller ones in the grove. Another tree was measured to 2ft 11in in girth. > > On the way back home my attention was caught by a grove of bright yellow Tulip Poplars located just above the Chestnut Cove Overlook. I stopped, grabbing my measuring gear and camera and set out into the woods. I first measured two of the taller tulips and took a couple of photos. Afterwards I attempted to climb down a steep hill, falling in the process. It sure seems that falling hurts worse as one gets older! Stepping down into the grove was an awe inpiring sight. The leaves were so yellow that it was nearly eye-hurting. Among the Tuliptrees were Maples that had a tinge of orange to them. It reminded me so much of the Golden Woods of Lothlorien in LOTR. A truly enchanting place. My pictures did not do the place justice. The Mallorn Trees of Lothlorien closely resemble Beeches. Beeches like Tulip Poplar turn yellow or yellow-orange in the fall. > > The first poplar measured was 134.51 feet tall and 7 feet 11 inches in girth. The second measured was 139.60 feet tall and 9 feet 5 1/2 inches in girth. Does anyone in ENTS have any idea of how old these trees would be? My guess is about 100 years. > > James Parton > > Allegheny > 97KViewDownload > > Chinquapin.jpg > 124KViewDownload > > American > 91KViewDownload > > Chestnut > 151KViewDownload > > Chestnut > 133KViewDownload > > The > 188KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
