tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17606705871170046602024-03-06T00:39:42.209+00:00OTHER PEOPLE'S PICTURESLucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-46593204489756773792021-02-25T04:27:00.003+00:002021-02-25T04:27:50.664+00:00A POST TO SHOW THIS BLOG IS STILL WANTED<p> Google is checking we are not abandoning our blogs. This is not being added to at present but someday it might. So here's a little checking-in comment.</p>Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-57097059434247413362015-05-06T12:44:00.000+01:002015-05-06T15:01:07.092+01:00'TREE WATCHER''S TREE FOLLOWING REPORT FOR MAY - MAGNOLIA<div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two months have flown by and my Magnolia has gone from budding to flowering to just leaves, leaving a pink carpet on the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mid March found it in full bloom. This brings the year of following this tree pretty much full circle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It wasn't the only thing in bloom. The warmer, lengthening days brought out many other things as well. </span>Especially in April, as seen below.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Rhododendron is the state flower of Washington state. They come in many </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">colors, blooming at different times. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So many things coming to life in the spring! Who will be my next tree? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe this beautiful Eucalyptus on the bluff? I don't know.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And it didn't disappoint!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The picture dated Feb. 28 has many very small buds on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In this close up some of the flowers resemble tulips, thus making the Magnolia tree sometimes called a “tulip tree.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put a couple of cuttings of buds in the house and watched them bloom. Picture included here. In the past I have done that with other flowering trees or bushes as well if cuttings are taken when buds are close to opening. They look very pretty when displayed in a vase</span></div>
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Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-19197156165707099962015-02-10T09:28:00.000+00:002015-02-10T09:28:34.809+00:00TREE WATCHER'S POST FOR FEBRUARY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My tree has been most boring the last few months and even now. It does not appear to be waking up anytime soon. But wait, I do believe things are happening inside the trunk and branches that we cannot see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The buds are still there, waiting for the right moment to begin swelling into life. Perhaps there will be some noticeable changes next month. As you can see, there is no shortage of buds. In a few months the Magnolia will be clothed in a multitude of pink!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I started this in March or April, so it is not yet time to pick a new tree. In the meantime I have written and published another article, this time for the American Nyckelharpa Association. At least I have not been idle! The Magnolia tree has gone completely naked since early December. It is pregnant with new little buds, waiting for birth in the spring as sweet pink babies, to grow into beautiful pink tulip flowers! It is clothed only be an assortment of growing moss and lichens, as are the other trees here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A closer look reveals the little embryonic buds, snuggly attached to their mother tree. A lucky clear sky </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">happened to be around for this photo. What’s not to like about this, in spite of the freezing weather? New life beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is amazing to see not just pieces of driftwood on the sand, but also large trees with some roots. I always wonder what kind of trees they were, where they came from and how long it took to get there. </span></div>
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Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-32852255711750893902014-11-10T08:36:00.001+00:002014-11-10T08:36:43.910+00:00TREE WATCHER'S TREE FOLLOWING POST FOR NOVEMBER - MAGNOLIA<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Moss is especially happy when the rainy season comes as seen on this small retaining wall in the front garden. It also grows very readily on the roof where it has to be removed at times. Yeah, the joys of living in a wet climate. It does leave it's beauty stamp, however!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">As the year winds down towards winter, the days seem to go faster and faster, just as the yarn at the end of a ball disappears quickly. Flowers we enjoy in the summer begin to fade away as the sap in trees begins to fall, causing the leaves to turn color and float to the ground. Nature prepares her kingdom for its long hibernation.</span></div>
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We all experience it in some way. Looking up into my Magnolia tree, I still see groups of yellow leaves, as was reported in September. Most of her summer clothing of green is still there, however. Some of the leaves have already fallen to the ground and dried up.</div>
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Two unknown "weed trees" are covered with brightly colored berries, which are falling to the ground in great numbers. The first one was in my August post when the berries were still green. The second one, a different kind of "weed tree" is also turning color and displaying red berries, although not as numerous as the first one.</div>
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</span></i></span>Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-12313286375932567932014-09-09T10:49:00.000+01:002014-09-09T17:33:48.178+01:00'TREE WATCHER''S POST FOR SEPTEMBER - TREE FOLLOWING<br />
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There are a number of green buds present which will become pink flowers in the spring.</div>
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Meanwhile, when I was up in Victoria, BC I saw some really interesting trees.</div>
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This one was very strange looking and I'm not sure what it was. It had cedar like needles but appeared in a "weeping" pattern. It was really lovely.</div>
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Especially cool were the beautiful Madrona trees there. The peeling bark gave such an artistic texture to them!</div>
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They were still beautiful when looking up at their towering heights, looking very majestic against the blue sky of Victoria!</div>
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I know, I am rambling by digressing a bit, but it is nice to acknowledge the beauty of other trees during the wait for the chosen tree to progress to the next stage. I am sure there will be more changes to my Magnolia tree for October. With the days becoming shorter and the nights colder, preparations for winter set in.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Growing underneath the tree in the shade is a Hydrangea bush with blue flowers.</span></div>
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This growth is very hard, not like a typical mushroom. Underneath it, a small growth of leaves from another plant or tree is growing!</div>
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Breaking a larger one open revealed a cross section of several compartments, filled with tiny black seeds. The smaller ones were dried up and seemed to be empty.</div>
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The picture, unfortunately didn't stay sharp for the close up but you can see some tiny seeds spilling out.</div>
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Since there was nothing else new with the Magnolia, I decided to concentrate a bit on the moss growing on the cherry tree next to it. Both trees had moss and lichens, but the moss was more predominant on the cherry tree and much more interesting.</div>
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There about 12,000 species of mosses. They are flowerless plants belonging to the Bryophyta group. They grow mostly in shady, moist areas in clumps and have no seeds, roots, or vascular tissue. The leaves are simple, usually in a single layer of cells. They produce spore capsules on thin stalks. Notably, the Pacific Northwest rainforest is loaded with mosses, many of which hang off of the evergreen trees like long hair. They are an amazing sight to see!</div>
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Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-54953347984033430922014-05-06T08:15:00.000+01:002014-05-06T08:25:12.152+01:00TREE WATCHER'S MAGNOLIA - MAY REPORT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span></span>Lucy Corrander Now in Halifax!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14685242329129914772noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760670587117004660.post-64751339276806547982014-04-07T06:57:00.000+01:002014-04-08T06:21:42.085+01:00TREE WATCHER'S MAGNOLIA AT THE END OF MARCH 2014<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">
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"Maggie," my Magnolia tree is putting on her Spring clothing now!</div>
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The first pictures up there were taken on March 13. The one below was taken March 23, to show the progress in the growing and opening flowers.</div>
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The following pictures were taken on April 4. You can see how just about every bud has opened to show it's pink Spring dress!</div>
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Not everyone has a blog so I offered to make space for those who are following trees and would like to share their findings with other Loose and Leafy Tree Followers but who don't have practical means for doing so.<br />
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'Tree Watcher', who lives in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, which shares a border with British Columbia (Canada) has sent pictures of the tree she is following. At first she didn't know what kind of tree it is but, after some research has decided it is a magnolia.<br />
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It's taken me a little while to work out how to present them to you. Initially, I had intended to put one picture and a paragraph within a Loose and Leafy post. But, on reflection, I realised there were a couple of problems with this. One, that one picture might not be enough when getting to know a tree in detail. The other that if I uploaded them onto the blog in the usual way they would appear in my own picture album - as if I had taken them myself - which would be confusing.<br />
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So . . . I've set up a parallel blog called 'Other People's People's Pictures'. This is it.<br />
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And here are Tree Watcher's pictures and text. Unfortunately, there wasn't time to catch the <a href="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/display.php?owner=LucyCorrander&postid=07Mar2014" target="_blank">March Link Box</a> but they are important to post so the context is set for Tree Watcher's next Tree Following here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leaves from last year (2013) on the ground - March 2014</td></tr>
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