A painting from back in 2022, which is available as a postcard in my shop (and they’re currently 15% off just like prints and bookmarks! )
A painting from back in 2022, which is available as a postcard in my shop (and they’re currently 15% off just like prints and bookmarks! )
walking through the pines
a banquet for the senses
meditation grove
#dailyhaikuprompt - pine grove
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-stream-colorful-nature-landscape-art-sharon-cummings.html
Wilderness wildfires
"Beyond introducing foreign species to the landscape, the settler population sought to rid the land of any trace of what had existed before. Prior to the Nakba, the area of the Jerusalem Hills that last week’s fires tore through was heavily populated, with many villages spread across the landscape. Indeed, the expansive "Ayalon-Canada" forest, planted by the KKL in 1972 and now nearly entirely burnt to the ground, had already suffered two waves of devastation, albeit of another kind, in both 1948 and 1967.
"Beneath the remains of its trees may be found the ruins of four Palestinian villages: approximately 6,000 people once lived, farmed, and played there. With olive groves, fruit orchards, fields of grain, terraced farms and vegetable plots aplenty, the Jerusalem Hills were quite productive."
https://vashtimedia.com/land-tells-truth-jerusalem-wildfires/ @palestine @israel
These #PineTrees are grown for #softwood #timber. They have been planted in a regular array, producing an interesting geometrical effect. They’re about 25-30 m tall.
Problems with dandelions in the lawn, you say? Well, that's cute...
"Climate change poses a particular risk to pine trees growing in dry areas, a new University of Eastern Finland study conducted in an urban recreational forest in Helsinki shows.
Tree mortality has increased in the 21st century. This phenomenon is primarily driven by drought, heat waves, pests and forest fires, all of which have become more common with climate change".
#pinetrees #climatechange #droughts #BorealForest
New research details impact of extreme #wildfires on #PineTrees
By Allie Ruckman
12 Apr, 2024
"It’s known that wildfires have adverse effects on humans, but what about the plants, animals and trees?
"New research by Mj Riches, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Colorado State University Department of Chemistry, found that poor, smoke-induced air quality affects ponderosa pine trees’ ability to maintain #photosynthesis and release natural chemical emissions. Riches estimates a 7-14% decrease in ponderosa pine growth rate due to heavy smoke."
Read more:
https://natsci.source.colostate.edu/new-research-details-impact-of-extreme-wildfires-on-pine-trees/
my favorite fpv place with amazing pine trees got cut down