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Wood
Mar 28, 2010 17:45:51 GMT
Post by onlymark on Mar 28, 2010 17:45:51 GMT
It'd be sahel as well then.
The transitional zone of several hundred kilometres between semiarid deserts in northern Africa and the open woodland savanna to the south. It extends over 6000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
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Wood
Mar 28, 2010 18:23:16 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 18:23:16 GMT
Petrified wood is so amazing as a reminder of how the earth formed and changed.
Spindrift -- that is a wonderful photo, plus answers a question I always had about how they got wood "up there" to build stuff. Guess the answer is, "the hard way".
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Wood
Mar 28, 2010 22:48:18 GMT
Post by spindrift on Mar 28, 2010 22:48:18 GMT
Yes, the very hard way. Poor men, and boys, they only have short life expectancy. Woman also sometimes carry enormous loads.
Imagine trying to breathe at 13,000ft? and climb at the same time? and then carry monstrous loads on your back....
what a terrible life.
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Wood
Mar 29, 2010 1:23:19 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2010 1:23:19 GMT
When I was in Chiapas, I saw elderly women barefoot, dressed in the strange felted wrap-around skirt of the region, bent over carrying lumpy, bristling loads of firewood on their backs, which they supported with a tump-line across their foreheads. It's cold in the area where I was, even in the summer, and they would seem to suddenly appear on the side of the road, trudging along through wisps of mountain vapor. From my vantage point as a 20th century American, looking down at them from the windows of a bus was a glimpse of great swathes of human history and reality.
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Wood
Mar 29, 2010 8:23:48 GMT
Post by spindrift on Mar 29, 2010 8:23:48 GMT
Is Chiapas in Mexico?
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Wood
Mar 29, 2010 18:41:44 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 29, 2010 18:41:44 GMT
Yes, it borders Oaxaca on the east.
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Wood
Mar 30, 2010 7:28:47 GMT
Post by Kimby on Mar 30, 2010 7:28:47 GMT
Yes, we also saw the firewood gatherers when in Chiapas. It seems that near the villages all the limbs have been removed from the trees so the gatherers have to walk further out each time they go looking for firewood. Which makes the work even harder. And more time consuming.
It's too bad we can't send them some of the trees that are dead from pine bark beetles all over the American west to use as firewood, so they don't have to defoliate their own living forests...
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Wood
Apr 2, 2010 19:34:09 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 2, 2010 19:34:09 GMT
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Wood
Apr 7, 2010 2:48:22 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2010 2:48:22 GMT
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Wood
Apr 9, 2010 21:45:16 GMT
Post by rikita on Apr 9, 2010 21:45:16 GMT
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Wood
Apr 10, 2010 15:45:55 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2010 15:45:55 GMT
What a great photo, Rikita! I guess those are jigsawed discards from something, but they somehow look like Germanic angel-toys to me.
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Wood
Apr 10, 2010 21:40:36 GMT
Post by rikita on Apr 10, 2010 21:40:36 GMT
actually they are meant to be angels... they were on sale for a euro per piece at the place where my bf works - which is a catholic parish that supports poor people in the area, so they sell this kind of stuff to raise money, which they then invest in food etc. ...
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Apr 10, 2010 22:43:47 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2010 22:43:47 GMT
Oh, that is charming, Rikita. I didn't mean to suggest they looked like something being thrown away, merely that the large amount of them made me think they were from a cabinetry shop or something.
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Wood
Apr 10, 2010 23:57:06 GMT
Post by rikita on Apr 10, 2010 23:57:06 GMT
oh, i didn't think you were suggesting that... just found it kind of funny when you said they somehow look like angels...
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Wood
Apr 12, 2010 20:04:23 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2010 20:04:23 GMT
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Apr 20, 2010 23:02:52 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 20, 2010 23:02:52 GMT
We have a half-dozen of these big old stumps on our 4 acres. No one seems to know what kind of tree they were or how long ago they were cut. They are much bigger than the biggest living trees in the area...
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Apr 21, 2010 21:24:47 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2010 21:24:47 GMT
Kimby, have you taken a photo of that to the historical society &/or to the county agent? There might be an interesting story behind the stumps. That's a wonderful photograph.
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Wood
Apr 21, 2010 21:28:21 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 21, 2010 21:28:21 GMT
nice thought, but there are zillions of stumps around this part of the world, so it might be difficult to get someone interested in these ;-)
I was guessing they might be cedar trees, because the wood has lasted so long. Maybe the climate used to be wetter than today, allowing cedars to grow where they don't anymore.
They were probably cut before chainsaws, because they were cut above the broadest part of the tree, sparing the fellows on the crosscut saw the extra labor of sawing through another foot or two of wood.
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Wood
Apr 21, 2010 21:32:05 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2010 21:32:05 GMT
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Wood
Apr 21, 2010 21:34:03 GMT
Post by Kimby on Apr 21, 2010 21:34:03 GMT
(is that a fading jacaranda tree in the background, bixa?)
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Wood
Apr 21, 2010 21:47:20 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2010 21:47:20 GMT
Yes, that photo was taken Easter day. Go to this thread, #26 for jacarandas snapped six days ago. It's a skimpier show of flowers, but the color comes through beautifully.
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Wood
Apr 26, 2010 18:18:56 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 18:18:56 GMT
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Apr 27, 2010 22:41:08 GMT
Post by rikita on Apr 27, 2010 22:41:08 GMT
nice...
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Wood
Apr 29, 2010 20:40:39 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2010 20:40:39 GMT
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Wood
May 13, 2010 20:03:37 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 13, 2010 20:03:37 GMT
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Wood
May 17, 2010 16:36:07 GMT
Post by rikita on May 17, 2010 16:36:07 GMT
some wooden stairs...
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Wood
May 22, 2010 18:01:21 GMT
Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 18:01:21 GMT
Love the stairs, rikita. Where was it taken?
deyana, have you counted the rings on your stump to find its age?
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Wood
May 22, 2010 23:20:09 GMT
Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:20:09 GMT
Taken in the pony carver's workshop at the carousel.
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Wood
May 22, 2010 23:25:24 GMT
Post by Kimby on May 22, 2010 23:25:24 GMT
(I thought I'd already posted this, but maybe on a wrong thread...) This is the garden fence at the home/studio of an artist I visited recently. It's made of lodgepole pine driftwood collected from the shores of Flathead Lake: The gates are especially nice: And here's a sculpture hanging from the eaves: (soft focus because it is a small part cropped from a much larger photo)
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Wood
May 25, 2010 1:08:09 GMT
Post by Kimby on May 25, 2010 1:08:09 GMT
How do you explain this?
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