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This beautiful White Pine ( pinus strobus ) lives in Uncle Richard's yard, where he planted it in 1973. It hasn't moved from this spot since then...
Normally, the White Pine's branches extend nearly to ground level, but Richard started pruning this tree's lower branches once it was mature enough to do so. He wanted to accentuate the height that this tree would eventually reach, and he also wanted to make it easy to walk past and park beneath; it's next to the path from the house to the lane.
Look closely and you can see that it sustained some damage this past winter; I had to saw off a broken branch. You can see the stub halfway up the trunk. You can also see the freshly detached branch in the upper left of the frame that is stuck in the surrounding branches...uggghh! I have to get up there and pull that down before it breaks free and lands on one of the cars. Like I said above, people park beneath this tree sometimes.
Another arboreal Crossfolf Camera Presentation.
Normally, the White Pine's branches extend nearly to ground level, but Richard started pruning this tree's lower branches once it was mature enough to do so. He wanted to accentuate the height that this tree would eventually reach, and he also wanted to make it easy to walk past and park beneath; it's next to the path from the house to the lane.
Look closely and you can see that it sustained some damage this past winter; I had to saw off a broken branch. You can see the stub halfway up the trunk. You can also see the freshly detached branch in the upper left of the frame that is stuck in the surrounding branches...uggghh! I have to get up there and pull that down before it breaks free and lands on one of the cars. Like I said above, people park beneath this tree sometimes.
Another arboreal Crossfolf Camera Presentation.
Category Photography / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 960 x 1280px
File Size 527.2 kB
There he goes, posting pictures of his pinus online again...
I'll have to visit the town park behind the house I grew up in to see how many of the White Pines are still standing. A neighbor, a WWI vet, planted those before I was born and he's been gone nearly sixty years.
I'll have to visit the town park behind the house I grew up in to see how many of the White Pines are still standing. A neighbor, a WWI vet, planted those before I was born and he's been gone nearly sixty years.
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