Nature Pics

Post by **truehobbit** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:08 pm

We're talking about this one, right?

Alatar wrote:

I think the short, cone-shaped one is a yew-tree.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:27 pm

Ah, I was barking up the wrong tree! Sorry, hobby. The tree I was curious about was this one:

Alatar wrote:

I agree that yours looks like a pine.

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:54 am

Within a week I will have nature pics like you dream about. Ohhhh yes precioussss!!!
You'll see. You will al see !!!

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:56 am

And then we'll be sorry we treated you that way!

Boy howdy!

Where are you going? Or is it a surprise?

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:00 am

Well, not a surprise really.
I am going to Maui on Saturday.
I will be photographing banyan trees, volcanoes, beaches, waterfalls, and most importantly babez !!!
Oh yes. Babez !!!
She is so cute too.

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:02 am

And the tree Prim has in her post is not a pine by any stretch of the imagination. It may be (not likely) a fir, but it is in no way a pine.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:05 am

Holby, beaches, babez. . . . have fun!

Next week I will be at this beach:

My favorite in the world.

Very little sand, and no babez, but it's got caves and tide pools and whales and sea lions.

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:18 am

Heaven Prim !!!

Many people have a misconception of Hawaiin beaches. Most of the islands are far too young to have sandy beaches, so they truck in sand to the resorts. Most are lava benches waiting to be eroded and look quite a lot like the one in your pic. Blow holes, lava, coral....Not much sand or babez !!.

Unless you know where to find them !!! w000000000000000t !!!

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:24 am

As you no doubt do.

You have a good eye—that beach is a lava bench. The vantage the photo was taken from is the core of an old volcano.

Post by **Holbytla** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:31 am

Hawaii will be swallowed up by the sea sooner than a geologist can say Jackie Robinson.
It is so new and so unstable geologically speaking.
Part of the same eruption that caused the Aleutians.
Its all about our little tiny perspective.
Hawaii (the Big Island) is the only place on the planet that is still growing.
So young and volatile still. Such an amazing place.
I will post pics.
Then all can see what this planet is really all about geologically speaking.
I suspect there may be a babe or two thrown in for good measure. I mean I'll take a beach babe over a lava bench anyday.

Post by **Old_Tom_Bombadil** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:43 am

Primula Baggins wrote:It reminds me of eucalyptus, a bit, though I'm sure that's not what it is—the Irish climate would be all wrong.

Eucalyptus? I don't know what kind of eucalyptus trees they have in Oregon, but it doesn't look anything at all like the ones I've seen here in California.

Primula Baggins wrote:Ah, I was barking up the wrong tree!

Oh, nevermind, you were talking about a different tree.

truehobbit wrote:Looks like a pine tree to me.
(They do grow to strange shapes if they have room.)

Pine tree in Scotland

It might be a pine, but like Prim said, those look like leaves rather than needles. I have to admit that it does look like that Scottish Pine.

I thought it might be some variety of oak. We have some ginormous oak trees in California, but the really big ones I've seen don't look like that.

Post by **Athrabeth** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:54 am

Holbytla wrote: Many people have a misconception of Hawaiin beaches. Most of the islands are far too young to have sandy beaches, so they truck in sand to the resorts. Most are lava benches waiting to be eroded and look quite a lot like the one in your pic. Blow holes, lava, coral....Not much sand or babez !!.

Unless you know where to find them !!! w000000000000000t !!!

Holby-dear, the southern shoreline of Maui is just one amazing beach after the other.

From Kaanapali:

to Kamaole:

to Keawakapu:

to Makena:

Best beaches in all the Hawaiian Islands, they is!

I am soooooo jealous.

But soooooo happy for you.

Post by **Rowanberry** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:01 pm

While we're waiting for the Hawaii pictures, here are a couple of views from the Finnish countryside:

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:21 pm

Beautiful!

I've been to Norway and Sweden, but not Finland. Yet. I love the landscape in northern countries.

Post by **Alys** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:49 pm

What lovely pictures Rowan and Alatar - beautifully green

Last weekend we went home to visit my parents and, as usual we took far too many pictures - here are a few...

You can see some more on the Gallery at TOB if anyone is interested.

http://www.the-outer-banks.net/gallery/Alys?page=1

Lochgoilhead

Hell's Glen

Loch Fyne

My Dad's Roses

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:06 pm

So beautiful, Alys!

Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:15 pm

Makes me want to go there.

Post by **Rowanberry** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:40 pm

Alys, your pics make me want to visit Scotland again, and not just the cities there.

Post by **Alys** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:28 am

Well Voronwë, Prim and Rowan - you're all more than welcome to visit

Rowan maybe we'll still get round to renting that big house/castle we all used to talk about on TOB.

Post by **truehobbit** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 1:05 am

I also love the look of Northern Places - pity the climate there isn't as warm as I like it.

Prim, so we were talking about different trees!

No idea what yours could be. I'd say it looks familiar, but I can't put a name to it.