Trees, Trees....Glorious Trees!

Redbuds and Jap maples and oaks!

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Well started in summer, now it is fall....... I know there are some glorious autumn folliage shots waiting to be posted riiiight here. I'll be back.

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I was driving home late last night and noticed how beautiful the road looked in my headlights. There must have been a light wind blowing because it looked like the leaves were dancing on the road. I don't think I've ever really noticed this before. Then this morning I looked out on by back lawn and saw that my yard is covered with leaves. Oh well. I have a greenbelt that separates my back yard with my neighbors and it is full of maples, firs and ash(i think). The leaves from the ash have been dropping for the past two months

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Ah autumn, isn't it lovely MartyBarker?

My commute is FANTASTIC during autumn. At least it is pretty (traffic rots). I pass red and sugar maples, liquidamber, cherries, oaks, staghorn sumac (not a tree at all), poison ivy and virginia creeper (also not trees, but they look good!), beeches.... And this folliage season has seemed really long and glorious. I shot photos of many amazing trees along my commute. Unfortunately, I can't seem to do the oaks justice. Beeches and liquidamber are some of the last to change and drop their leaves.

Sugar maple

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_10_sugarmaple3crop.jpg

Beech

Cherries? Maybe crabapples.....? Liquidamber in the forground (left).

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_11_sandylakescherries5small.jpg

liquidamber (sweetgum)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/octoberliquidamber5small.jpg

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Fall folliage displays are unending this year! The following are from Mt Auburn Cemetery.

Metasequoia (redwood)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_11mtauburnmetasequoia4small.jpg

Ginko against yews

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_11mtauburnginkoleaves4small.jpg

A weeping willow

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_11mtauburnwillowsmall.jpg

and a Japanese Red Maple against yews

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Gigipix/Flora%20and%20Fauna/2006_11mtauburnjapmaplepond1small.jpg

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Beautiful pics, lk.

I've just driven down past the vale of Oxford, and the trees looked stunning with the sun setting just behind them. If I'd had my camera, I would have risked causing a multi car pile up by stopping to take a piccie or two.

I love Autumn!

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Thanks, LordE. I wish I had a camera that would capture the beauty better. I have to admit that I sometimes even shoot pictures WHILE driving. Talk about a bad idea!

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littlek wrote:

Thanks, LordE. I wish I had a camera that would capture the beauty better. I have to admit that I sometimes even shoot pictures WHILE driving. Talk about a bad idea!

Ha! I nearly went off the road once, trying to take a picture of my favourite motorway sign in France.

Big blue overhead Motorway sign that included Geneva, Zurich, Milan, Turin and Rome.

I managed to take the picture, but it came out too blurred to read!

I'll remember next time, and slow down while I approach!

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Interesting sign! Where in France is it?

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Beautiful photos littlek. Is the sweet gum related to maples?

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Tai, nope not related. It's in the Hamamelidaceae family, related to witchazel and fothergilla - and a bunch of asian plants.

Quote:

The Hamamelidaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales, including 27 genera and about 80-90 species, all shrubs and small trees. In older classifications such as the Cronquist system, the family was treated in a separate order Hamamelidales.

Maples are in a family of their own (aceraceae).

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littlek wrote:

Hi there,
Nice pictures. The last is possibly Kalopanax pictus of aralia family.

It's really hard to choose a tree that I like the most.
I guess it's better to give some:
Juglans nigra
Metasequoia chinensis
Eucalyptus species
and tulip trees.
In fact I like them all Smile

Kalopanax is the tree I'd like to plant in my garden. The trees I'd like to see in person are for example western redwoods (old forest especially).

Greetings,
Bpjea

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Bpjea--

Welcome to A2K.

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My favorite is long gone, I'm afraid.

http://www.dotphoto.com/SAN1/31/FA/B0/i31FAB0A6-0D95-49DF-976B-E4FD51AABB18.jpg

It's the smaller one in the foreground. This is a scan of an old photo taken
with a little kodak about 40 years ago and it doesn't do it justice.

Ou sont les neiges d'antan?

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For those, who can't see the pic George posted above (like me), here it's again

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littlek wrote:

I like Dogwood Kusa

Hey! You talkin to me? You talkin to ME?!

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dagmaraka wrote:

Hey! You talkin to me? You talkin to ME?!

I don't think littlek was talking about the Transsilvanianwood Kusá BUT the Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa or Benthamidia kousa). also known as the Japanese Flowering Dogwood. :wink:

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Thanks, Walter.

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Bpjea wrote:

Hi there,
Nice pictures. The last is possibly Kalopanax pictus of aralia family.

It's really hard to choose a tree that I like the most.
I guess it's better to give some:
Juglans nigra
Metasequoia chinensis
Eucalyptus species
and tulip trees.
In fact I like them all

Kalopanax is the tree I'd like to plant in my garden. The trees I'd like to see in person are for example western redwoods (old forest especially).

Greetings,
Bpjea

Welcome to the site Bpjea. I agree that it is terribly hard to pick a favorite. I love too many.

Thanks Walter......

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littlek wrote:

Welcome to the site Bpjea. I agree that it is terribly hard to pick a favorite. I love too many.

I love them all because I'm doing in trees as a hobby.
I've created a webpage that contains mostly pictures of trees.
If You're interested in seeing them, here's the link:
http://www.geocities.com/b_pacula/bpjea02.html
My another hobby is growing hardy bamboo like Phyllostachys species for example.

Greetings,
Bpjea

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