2026-08-20 15:00:48
Old, hollow trees may be the best climate shelter wild animals have https://www.earth.com/plants/old-hollow-trees-may-be-the-best-climate-shelter-wild-animals-have/
Just occurred to me the juxtaposition of the 2 games I been playing lately.
Valheim. Vikings! Trolls! Gods! Hit shit with axes and arrows, cut down trees to build cabins! Run everywhere, take forever to get there!
No Man's Sky (in VR) Space! Teleports! Fly across a solar system in a minute or less! Alien creatures, pirates, Sentinels! Shoot lasers pew pew! .. ok you can still cut down trees to build cabins, if you wanna.
Been thoroughly enjoying the Cosmos update via t…
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#silentsunday
#clouds May 2017
#goodmorning from our #morningwalk
It has rained a bit during the night, it's nice and chill - until the sun shines on a dark tshirt, then it's nice and warm
Previously an underused site,
the area was transformed using Hügelkultur,
a no-dig permaculture technique that creates highly fertile mounds using woodchip, timber, and organic matter from local tree surgeons.
This approach, combined with forest garden principles, has established a resilient ecosystem for wildlife,
turning the space into an all-year-round green habitat with edible shrubs and trees like blackberries, raspberries, and apple trees.
"‘Chasing Deforestation’ in Liberia: Behind the scenes with Mongabay"
#Liberia #Deforestation #Trees
This is what I looked like at Dio Day 2026; believe it or not I got that shirt at Wal⭐Mart!
#photo #photography #selfie
Cars are the reason SF’s tree canopy is so sparse.
This is typical. That’s gotta be, what, 200 feet without trees due to continuous driveways. And down the block the trees that are there are small, offering little shade. That’s because the sidewalk is too narrow for large, healthy, mature trees. And why’s it narrow? To fit a parking lane.
We can choose trees over cars, life over luxury transport.
If you're around NYC, check out the photo exhibition "Tompkins Trees" by Alicia Fowler '20 M.A.R. at Ninth Street Espresso until Aug 11. https://www.aliciafowler.com/about-tompkins-trees
"Provenances of... species from more southerly latitudes have... been found to outperform local provenances... However, survival and stem form can be compromised if the transfer distance is too large, or if the transfer is made from an area with a continental climate"
So, if you're planting trees in #Scotland and you think we're heading for 2° warming, you want to be sour…
#MountainMonday #mountains
Indian Peaks mountains along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. August 2013
oh #footpathFriday , I almost missed you. but it fits well with the blog post that I just published this evening!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/blackbe
A couple of pics from a little bike packing trip around Dorset over the weekend. We took the train to Upwey (just outside Weymouth) and cycled 110km off road across Ridges, Bridle Paths and old Roman Roads back to Poole
#cycling
Today I made a little bike tour from Amsterdam out to Broek in Waterland and back.
Not pictured: the goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, cats, ducks and fruit trees along the way. (It's a framing region.)
#Nederland
#SilentSunday Coombes, #WestSussex Noted for its extensive medieval wall paintings, some as early as 1120. #photography
From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…
2026 NFL Preseason Week 2: 10 things to watch https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-preseason-week-2-10-things-to-watch
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We expected rain (but no ⚡⛈️).
So we got our jackets, did our errands with our little bike trailer - and were lucky because it didn't even rain 💪
✅ Saved fuel again
✅ Physical activity
✅ Faster way to detach from work
✅ Saw a couple of cats
Totally recommended!
#cycling #BikeTooter
Wie eulig kann eine Eule? 🦉
https://moresci.sale/@birds/116916565522333404
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Screaming Trees:
🎵 Nearly Lost You
#ScreamingTrees
https://mikemeagher.bandcamp.com/track/nearly-lost-you-screaming-trees-cover-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qzFXUvBk7lELXuxVREypV
Hälsingland #sweden
Rescued from a single tree, clinging to a steep cliff on the side of a remote Pacific island, seedlings from the last wild specimen of _Dendroseris neriifolia_ (Hook & Arn.) are now comfortably settled into a botanical oasis in the cheddar cheese producing landscape of the Mull of Galloway. As the curator of Logan Botanic Garden (one of the four constituent gardens of the Edinburgh Botanics) observed, "Experience shows that plant species from the Juan Fernandez Islands do well at Lo…
Trees are failing to adapt as drought pushes them closer to their limits https://www.earth.com/plants/trees-are-failing-to-adapt-as-drought-pushes-them-closer-to-their-limits/
#SilentSunday
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Just noticed sparrows all over one of our flowering kōwhai trees, and they seem to be going to all the flowers, getting nectar... never seen that before! Have you seen it before @…?
Forgive these sleep-deprived rantings - they come from a happy, people-appreciating place! :D
It has become freshly amazing to me, the many ways of framing or encountering music. As a child it almost always provoked narrative experience; travel escapades - personalities arriving, things happening, a world generating itself. This disappeared fairly quickly from around ten onwards, and went to abstraction: sound as sound, music as music. In feeling out metaphors to try and give it langua…
from my link log —
Straightened trees.
http://danieltemkin.com/StraightenedTrees
saved 2020-07-17 https://dotat.at/:/3RXAF.html…
In 2022 I drove across Canada from Ottawa to northern BC. I remember driving for three full days around the top of Lake Superior with a wall of mostly dead trees on either side of the road the whole way, thinking, man when Ontario burns, there's going to be no stopping it. And here we are.
Via Bluesky:
From The Tyee's Daily Catch
“We live in on a rural property with a lot of mostly mature trees. While I agree with some of the FireSmart recommendations, I’m not going to cut down all these trees in order to have a slightly better chance of saving the house and any outbuildings in case of a forest fire. If I wanted to live on a bald prairie, I’d move to Alberta or Saskatchewan (shudder).... All of us reading The Tyee know exactly what’s triggering all these wildfires, torrential rai…
Fast and Theoretically-Efficient Batch-Parallel Link-Cut Trees, Euler Tour Trees, and Treaps
Quinten De Man, Laxman Dhulipala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14746 https://
The mini map shows how device trees really go mainly in breadth, little in depth.
I had the issue that the nodes weren't even visible on the mini map anymore because they got so small:
https://github.com/xyflow/xyflow/issues/5575
We'll see how this works out over time.
Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…
View of Vet School Prairie Garden Looking Towards Boice Thompson Institute and Tower Road
#photo #photography #cornell
Red sunset towards #Monterey bay this evening. Silhouetted palm trees, second picture frames it with a lamp and some olive tree leaves . #photography
36C...
I started noticing a lot of trees with yellow or dry leaves on crowns. And it's just August!
'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag
'old or special Trees'
This #tree was really special to me. I saw it on a winter / snowshoe hike. I was just at the right place at the right time so that the it was backlit and just so impressive.
One of the best
Trees keep absorbing carbon long after they stop growing #environment
Our power lines are all buried, but a lightning strike seems to have killed the garage door opener (that I just finished hooking up to voice control), the living room TV, a GFI electrical circuit, and most importantly, the central air conditioner.
I was looking out the front window and everything lit up bright orange-red.
I'll be out in the yard tomorrow, looking for damaged trees and streetlights. Something got the crap knocked out of it.
Trump's vision for White House park: 47 trees to mark his presidency (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/28/trump-wants-47-trees-mark-his-47th-presidency-white-house-park/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p8#a260628p8
I knew this day would come. The chainsaw has been going all morning. (Even though there is lightning in the area!!)
The former Alberni High School (1920-1952) and Redford Elementary School (1980s) has had a large fir tree on its property likely for that entire time… The tree is at least 80-100 years old.
It was sold a few years ago. I am not speaking ill of the First Nations developer because I actually appreciate what they have done at the property and agree with the development.
This is a failure of City policy not protecting important trees and public spaces that continue to be lost in the City. They provide shade, habitat, and public enjoyment. They are not rotten, they are not at risk of falling or blowing down in a storm.
I don’t understand why people are afraid of trees. 🌲
😢
#trees #portalberni
goodnight
#dusk
On my walk this weekend I went past this abandoned mansion, built by a Victorian stockbroker in the 1860s. You can barely see it from the track but the whole place is falling into ruin. But as I walked past, I could hear the calls of peacocks. Presumably now wild, and it made me think post apocalyptic thoughts. #ruins #walking
Post-Perseids Sunrise At Raisting Earth Station (2026)
(Pictures from between 5-6AM this morning... I still need to process the meteor shower images from the hour before, but not holding my breath...)
#LandscapePhotography #RadioTelescope
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Strawberry Switchblade:
🎵 Trees and Flowers
#StrawberrySwitchblade
https://night-school.bandcamp.com/track/trees-flowers
https://open.spotify.com/track/39VxarnBZV8POFPXvnAD2U
Up to 80 Percent of Critically Endangered Torrey Pine Trees Are Not Expected to Survive Following Historic Wildfire on Santa Rosa Island
https://www.independent.com/2026/09/08/majority-of-santa-rosa-islands-rare-torrey-pines-predi…
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Merkle trees and build systems with OSTree and ninja.
https://lwn.net/Articles/821367/
saved 2020-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/R8DC9.htm…
Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …
"England’s ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees
In a small part of Alexander Island,
on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula,
ancient fossil trees that date back
100 million years can be found,
with logs up to seven metres high
still found standing upright.
The roots of these coniferous trees are still attached to the carbonaceous soil deposits today.
Their root systems indicate that these trees thrived on the rich plains alongside large meandering rivers.
In fact, the area was domina…
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Sycamores, Early Autumn (2023)
Early autumn mood & colors already setting in. Looking forward to my favorite season of the year...
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Trees
"Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment
Trees have a hidden climate superpower: They keep absorbing carbon long after growth stops https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/trees-have-a-hidden-climate-superpower-they-keep-ab…
Today advocacy groups active in the US and Canada are launching a new “Charmin Wipes Out Bears” and “Charmin Wipes Out Forests” online advertising campaign alerting consumers that the US-based company Procter & Gamble is destroying Canada’s boreal forests to make toilet paper. Campaign videos and social media posts feature a crying bear dispossessed of its habitat, a poop emoji narrating footage of the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests, and a talking butt repeating Charmin’s claim …
Volunteer at Twilight 5k -- if you can't believe there is such as thing as a fox-photographer you can see for yourself at the next FLRC event, Trackapalooza 2026, this Saturday at Ithaca High!
#photo #photography
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"Every $1 a city spends on parks returns $3 — and scientists want more trees"
#Nature #Environment #Parks
Fog Over Forggensee (2026)
(Stunning light & fog encounter on a recent early morning walk...)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Fog
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Strawberry Switchblade:
🎵 Trees and Flowers
#StrawberrySwitchblade
https://night-school.bandcamp.com/track/trees-flowers
https://open.spotify.com/track/39VxarnBZV8POFPXvnAD2U
found another abandoned bridge today. very steep, deep railway cutting.
#abandoned #bridge
Trump cut down all the remaining cherry trees in Washington
that were a gift from Japan in 1912
The trees were cut down without approval, to build a golf course, along the Potomac biking & running pathways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/20…
Southeast Asia is a hotspot for oak trees, many under ‘dire threat’ https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/southeast-asia-is-a-hotspot-for-oak-trees-many-under-dire-threat/
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We've been out #hiking today. Luckily it wasn't that warm as the sky was covered in clouds - at least sometimes. But to be honest we were surprised that we met just a few people.
But the drought is undeniable. Usually the grass should be quite green.
Anyways. We had a 4h loop and saw a lot of blackberries and even Belladonna. Not a lot of motives around - or maybe it was too w…
"Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show"
#Brazil #AmaonRainforest #Trees
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"Kenyan teen leads charge on tree planting and climate awareness"
#Kenya #Trees #Environment
Eve Of Dusk Ⅰ (2026)
(Evening walk in the local wetlands)
#SilentSunday #EveningWalk #NaturePhotography
'Landschaft in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag
#Landscape in black&white
Yes I have some #winter photos for the topic! I really like this one as it looks like a drawing. I eve…
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I couldn't decide what to do today and where to go. I got up too late for a longer hike due to the heat. In the end I just got on my bike and followed the road and pushed myself for some training effect.
It was a really enjoyable ride except for the last 10km where the heat got really annoying.
Is this a #silentsunday contribution? I think so... No talking, less thinking, j…
"Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Climate
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oh wow #footpathfriday again! And I almost missed it. This is from a bike and hike last year which I really really enjoyed.
Afterwards I was quite surprised about the distance and height that I covered. But it was worth it.
#mountains
Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…
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Weather forecast was about rain and maybe lightning ... so we just biked to your lokal mountain and did a quick loop in high humidity.
#hiking #bayern #mountains
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