Doug,
Fess up? You put an 15" tall replica of your wife against a fairly ordinary tree. We're wise to the trickery, cuz brother Larry does it all the time. Oooh, I'm jealous. What a fabulous tree. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "doug bidlack" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 10:21:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Ponderosa pine WNTS and ENTS, Ponderosa pine was with us wherever we went last month in Southern California. We saw it at the southernmost park that we visited, Cuyamaca Rancho SP, and we saw it in Sequoia National Forest a good deal farther North as well. The first two pictures show the fattest one that we saw near the southern entrance of Cuyamaca Rancho SP. I thought it was funny when the park ranger told us to stick our noses in the bark and smell. Now where have I heard that before? Image #3 A burned up but still attractive Ponderosa pine. Near this particular dead pine we were following some mountain lion tracks on the trail. Very cool. Image #4 This shot was taken along brushy creek which is a tributary of the Kern River well upstream of Isabella Lake. It is within Sequoia National Forest near where my parents were camping in Kernville on the north side of Lake Isabella. There are no Ponderosa pines in this picture. I only put it in to show the dramatic contrast between this dry, scrubby site with the next picture. Don mentioned that California is a botanist's dream...I would go much further and say that it is a naturalists dream! The changes in scenery can be so great that they are nearly unbelievable. After our hike up and down this creek we decided to drive a little farther up the road to see what we might find. I saw a sign that read "Trail of 100 Giants" and it indicated that it wasn't very far. Ofcourse we had to check it out! Image #5 Wow what a fat Ponderosa pine! Does this picture look even remotely like the previous one? Hard to believe they are only separated by a few miles. Doug -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -- Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected]
