| Deviant Login | Shop | Join deviantART for FREE  |
Take the Tour  |
#Doctrinaire
| Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Landscapes | ©2012-2013 *Blacksand459 |
The Journal Portal
Browse Journals |
Polls |
deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]
Keep in Touch!
|
Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
|
Sta.sh
It must be quite a sight in the winter.
Was your grand-dad's purpose to make a walking path or was he cultivating harvest-able wood?
It does look lovely in the winter!
He planted all these with my Mom, and the purpose was simply to enjoy having trees to look at. The path was never there before...if you turn 180 degrees, there is an apartment complex that abuts to this property. Apparently kids have made a path walking through there.
First, anyplace you have human habitalization in a given area, they have used trees to make anything from dwellings to tools, etc. That said, even the Native American Indian were not beyond reproach. They WERE more conservative in that regard that Europeans, but not all together pure by any stretch of the imagination.
Also, one thing is a common denominator among trees or forests, they burn. Forest fires have occurred at various times just from nature itself, electrical storms mostly.
Both of those issues are a pruning process that usually denudes the earth of having such old, large trees.
The reason I point that out is while industrialized mankind has never been exception in taking advantage of a natural resource, there are few exceptions that still gave him pause...
In other words, what I am trying to say is, I don't think there were forests that were the size of the redwoods in Michigan back in the 1700's. I say that because the Lewis and Clark expedition went to the west coast and they found the redwood forests to be exceptional. Not saying they weren't large trees in Michigan (or anywhere else) but they weren't redwood sized.
However, from what I understand, there "may" have been redwood-sized forests back in Europe, back around 10,000 to 5,000 BC. The reason I say that, is that boats were said to be made by cutting and carving the ribs of a boat, from one tree for each rib. They didn't know how to warp the wood. Then they realized that large trees like that don't come a dime a dozen and in short order (over the span of about a thousand years or whatever) they had denuded the area of trees of that size. So they learned to either cut and paste beams together from smaller trees to make a single arcing rib of a boat.
"It does look lovely in the winter!"
Watcher demands to see!!!!
(Kidding of course, but if it is "lovely" then it may be capture worthy, no?)
"Kids" ...ya gotta love them.