Set 1 of My
Favorite Birch Tree Photographs
Bob Jensen at
Trinity University
Birch trees come in a variety of shapes and colors in these mountains. They
typically grow in clusters. and are
beautiful hardwood trees that continuously leave a mess of twigs,
branches, and paper-like bark on the ground.
This week I combine some current photographs take by Wes Lavin of our birch
trees with some of my older photographs. Wes Lavin
is a photographer friend from Ashland who occasionally stops by to take pictures
of our yard. His June 2015 pictures of our birch grove
are shown below:
Below is my picture of a problem that I have in my birch grove. A few years back
(in 2013) we had a
disastrous snow fall on Memorial Day after the new leaves of the trees had
unfurled. The weight
of the heavy snow causes some trees to break in strange ways. Instead of bending
to the gournd
some of the trees snapped in the middle an fell across other trees. Below is one
such tree that
I don't quite know how to safely take down. It is expensive and difficult to
bring a bucket lift
up to the fallen tree top shown below:
Below you can see a birch tree that lost it's top in the Memorial Day storm:
Below are some other pictures that I took in foliage season:
We normally think of birch trees as having white bark. But there are several
colors
Below is a picture I took of contrasting white and copper birch trees in our
woods
Birch Trees --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_trees
Birch is a broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula (pron.: /ˈbɛtjʊlə/ Bé-tu-la),[1] in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams, and is closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The genus Betula contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Red List of Threatened Species. They are typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in northern temperate and boreal climates.
Once upon a time there were once three birch
trees in the driveway loop behind our cottage
This is a view of those three birch trees
from our bedroom facing west
A few years back we had a particularly heavy
ice storm that broke the middle birch tree
Now upon a time there are only two remaining
birch trees in our driveway loop
The ice storm was also hard on the birch
trees in our woods
Fortunately most of the trees in our woods
survived this ice storm
This is the reflection of a sunrise in a
picture I took from our back deck
This is a winter sunset of these same birch
trees
In the picture below you can see the top of the lift between our basement and
the first floor
It takes us about 45 minutes to have lunch or
dinner at the Mountain View Grand Hotel
Birch trees add a lot of color to the foliage of autumn
In Shelburne, NH there's a town forest made
up mostly of birch trees ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelburne,_New_Hampshire
Bob Jensen's Other Tree Photographs
My Maple Tree Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Trees/Maple/Maples01.htm \Maple Sugaring Photographs
Set 1 of Maple Sugaring Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Trees/MapleSugar/01/01.htmSet 2 of Maple Sugaring Photographs
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/Trees/MapleSugar/02/02.htmSet 1 of my Timber Harvesting (Logging) Photographs
www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Trees/TimberHarvest/Set01/TimberHarvest01.htm
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On May 14,
2006 I retired from
Trinity University after a long and
wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was
generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My
wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
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address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with
New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's
Green Mountains to the West
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Collection (antique New Hampshire photographs) ---
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