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Earlier this year, just before the leaves came out on the eighty foot high Sweetgum tree in our yard, my husband cut it down. Any doubts we may have had about removing it as an ornamental disappeared when we saw how easily the branches snapped, and how the tree was starting to rot from the inside out. Setting the logs aside as I helped to lower them, I noticed these shapes produced by the dying core.
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Mt. Walker, Washington (USA)
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Mount Hood landscapes, OR, USA
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Poem: BlossoMania
Petals are falling,
the sky is blue
They cover everything,
old and new
If I sit here too long,
I’ll be covered too!
Idaho, USA-BC Canada border June 11, 2011 and Feb. 13, 2013
Winter storm, downtown Sedona, AZ
Purple Cactus, Seguaro cacti, and mimosa flowering tree, Phoenix, Arizona
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Oranges in someone’s front yard garden, Phoenix, AZ
Endangered Cottonwood-Willow Riparian forest, The Hassayampa River area, Peoria AZ. A local legend says that people who drink from the Hassayampa River will never tell the truth again.
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Arbutus, Creyke Pt., Vancouver Island BC
