14 September, 2009

On an afternoon bike ride...

I saw some interesting things last week.

First off I went to my favorite spot to pick wild muscadines (native grapes) just off of the PATH near Candler Park and Paidea School. While there I found this interested grape with a dead insect inside of it.

dying happy

Truly dying happy
dying happy2

Can you imagine dying while consuming a sweet delicacy that's 10 times your own size? That would kind of rule.


Further down the road I saw a tree company removing a GIANT tuliptree from someone's front yard. I was able to snap a few quick pix. The size of the trunk pieces was really impressive

big tuliptree
stacks of tuliptree trunk

I think I counted about 120 rings from this photo
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Neat bike ride.

2 comments:

Charlie said...

Why did they cut it into such short pieces? Yo would think if it were necessary to cut down such a neat tree they could at least use it for lumber. maybe there aren't any mills nearby, or it was too diseased?

skyrocket said...

probably not cost effective, sadly enough.