Ed, That is an idea. It might work.
Anyway, what did you think of the grove. It's such a shame that the blight has the trees so scarred up and leaves so much dead. James. On Nov 8, 4:57 pm, "Edward Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > You can use names like one_word_underline with an underline instead of a > space. > > 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 4:55 PM > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Chestnut Grove, Hominy Valley Overlook BRP > > Ed, > > It could be something to do with Yahoo Mail, which is what I use. I > don't know. I just know that it not picking up the full file name > titles is recent. All of the photos had two and three word titles, > Like Allegheny Chinquapin etc. Only the first word shows up. Until I > figure out the cause I probably will have to use simple one word > titles. > > Thanks: James. > > On Nov 8, 3:43 pm, "Edward Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
