| | What's your favorite tree? | | My favorite tree is a birch tree. In my country they grow wild making natural valleys on the high ways. On the fall birch leaves turn in red, yellow and orange colors, it looks wonderful! I also like a birch-bark because it stays white all seasons. At my country we have heaps of birch young forest stands and also ten-year-old birch trees which stretch up to 10-15 meters. The birch juice is fantastic! | |
| | Do you have the imagenation??? Come on I know you can do it!!!! | | Okay, here it is.... if you could put yourself anywhere for even just a moment where would it be? Here is mine! Hope you like!My log home would sit in the middle of about 10 acres with about 30 foot of yard on all sides of the cabin. With trees standing tall around the boarder of the yard as if they were guarding it. I would want a mixture of tall oaks, and birch trees. In the middle of the back yard a small brook would run through. My yard would be Blue Lyme grass it’s a nice steel blue color, long and unruly. It would have a large red wood deck where I could sit and drink my coffee, from the warm orange glow of sun rise I see silhouette’s of the wild deer drinking from the brook. Looking through the steam rising from the coffee cup, I can see the mountain tops in the distance their reflection dancing off the lake below as if celebrating sun rise. In the distant the song of the American eagle echo’s off the mountain sides. For just a moment I would forget about how harsh the world is and remember the beauty that it still possesses. A sound startles the deer and the scatter like marbles on glass. Out of the right side of the woods a red fox tippy toes as if floating from the... | |
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| Where is my family? | | I am sitting here looking all around me and can not see any direct relatives of mine. I see shirttail relatives yes. But direct blodd relatives are not to be found near me. This photo is from the Nature Center I walked through Wednesday. This is a lone white birch tree standing tall amongst elms, maples and other birch trees etc. Ever see one odd tree than stands alone in a forest full of trees?
[b]HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~[/b]erican eagle echo’s off the mountain sides. For just a moment I would forget about how harsh the world is and remember the beauty that it still possesses. A sound startles the deer and the scatter like marbles on glass. Out of the right side of the woods a red fox tippy toes as if floating from the wood line. He makes his way to the brook, right as the sun peaks out from its blanket of mountains the fox looks up and the beam of the golden rays shine just on him, making him as though his fur was flames of brilliant orange. Closing my eyes and realizing that there is no other place I would want to be but right here in this moment forever. Then out of no where I wake up. | |
| | Buzzards Becoming A Pain! | | I don't know where they are exactly, but there are two buzzards, or at least it sounds like two, at the bottom of the garden somewhere. I hear them every morning, about twenty minutes before dawn, obviously waiting for the first light to come. They are distinctive by their high-pitched "meow" call, so I know they're buzzards.Last year, I found a dead, baby rabbit in my garden, minus its eyes, and with some mutilation to its rear undercarriage. Around it was a circle of its fur. I couldn't for the life of me think how it got there, but I spoke with my neighbour in the downstairs flat, and he said he heard a kind of screech but didn't think any more of it. Still, I couldn't fathom how it got there.Then the calls started coming before early light, and I began to piece two and two together. Then, about a month ago, I went up the garden to hang my washing, and there was a mass of blackbird or crow feathers, but not a single other bird part... no bones, nothing. Well, there was a new cat in the neighbourhood, who took to creeping around under the hedge at the front of the flat, so I shooed it away, thinking what a horrible beast it was, killing off the garden birds. Then, the... | |
| | Has anybody here grown Paper birch from seedlings? | | Just wondering if anyone here has had any success growing Paper Birch trees (Butula papyrifera) from seedlings? And if so, how long before you see any growth. I currently have 36 seedlings and have them in full sun. I water them once a day. I used a mixture of potting soil and compost for fertilization and hope that I have done this right...
Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! | |
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