Cool Nature Photos

[2LaneCruzer]

Here's what Mammy Nature did to the grass in my front yard:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Duplicate.

 

[deserteagle71]

Took a little trip to visit the "Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest" in the White Mountains on the California-Nevada border last week. Amazing trees - up to 5,000 years old - and they grow only at very high elevation.


Most of them look more dead than alive, tortured by the extreme winds at these elevations, but they have a stark beauty:


Check out the elevation here on my GPS unit:


Most of the terrain at this altitude is just a moonscape, with impossibly blue cobalt skies:

 

[ovrszd]

Great pics Deserteagle.

I have spent a lot of time at/above treeline in the Colorado Rockies. I study the trees closely on the way up. The last few have a hard life indeed. They try everything they can to survive. Makes you realize how thin skinned Earth is.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

 

[snymat68]

This is such a great thread!! I love seeing pictures of different places and how other people see things.
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Me too. Nice shot.

I really like fall pictures.
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Me too. Nice shot.

Nice.

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Nice shot. And that's really high up!

 

[bunyip]

Monaro Hwy, middle of nowhere NSW Australia

 

[ovrszd]

Are those tall, skinny trees Poplar? 50 years ago Poplar trees were common here for wind break around building sites. They were short lived trees and you rarely see them anymore. Thanks for the pic from down under!

 

[cqaigy2]

I remember those, Lombardy Poplar, were very popular, so to speak, in windy dry areas. They would plant a row of them to help reduce air speed and evaporation. They didn't live long though and had to be cut down. I bet that was fun, cutting a 50 foot tree in the wind.

 

[snymat68]

Popular poplar.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SR

 

[bunyip]

Are those tall, skinny trees Poplar? 50 years ago Poplar trees were common here for wind break around building sites. They were short lived trees and you rarely see them anymore. Thanks for the pic from down under!

Yes, very common in the area as windbreaks for high plains cattle and sheep which roam pretty much wherever they want and come down to the low country for winter to get them out of the snow.
Still see them being rounded up on horseback.
Very open and subject to high winds.

 

[snymat68]

SR

I've always thought mushrooms are strange looking things.

 

[ovrszd]

And intricately beautiful.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

They sure come in many different shapes and sizes!

SR

 

[Citydude]

If you remember the movie A river runs through it, here are the falls they filmed when the boys took a boat over them. It's on my wife's fathers place near Jackson Wyoming.

 

[ovrszd]

Very cool.

 

[EddieWalker]

Mushrooms are fun for close up shots!!!

 

[ovrszd]

I can study them endlessly.

Insects of all types are that way too.

 

[AllByteNoBark]

We went down to Padre Island National Seashore last weekend. Great place to get away for a bit. This is North Padre Island, no development, just a 70 mile natural beach with lots of sand dunes. We ended up driving down the beach to mile marker 20 which is in what is known as the Little Shell area, close to what is known as Big Shell. If you look at the photos it is easy to see where it got its name. Temps were great, wife and I had a good time.

From atop one of the dunes


20 mile marker, there is a marker every 5 miles


Coming back from the Laguna Madre which is on the inside of the land mass. Great wade fishing for Redfish.


Looking down the beach both ways




Shells