I went out to check on my apple trees this morning and it doesn’t look like they are going to make any apples this season. It seems like they skip every other year when flowering.
It has been really nice weather the last few days and the sun was out shinning.
My Douglas fir tree is in the background. It is a getting very large although it is only about ten years old. It grew from a seed and I had to transplant it to where it is now.
Apple tree, f/2.4 1/56 4.3mm ISO50 – click for viewing full screen
I was out driving around other day and I looked up at a mountain top that was all stripped bare of trees. I’d take a picture and post that but it feels kind of like taking a picture of a dead animal – it is really not that nice to look at, although it is interesting in a way.
There are so many giant stumps around here; this used to be a much different area. There were very large forests here with very ancient trees. There is something about very old trees that is so wonderful.
A large forest with big old trees makes its own weather. The rain water is held by the soil and trees and it evaporates up to recycle into new rain in the area. The moisture stays in the area and the trees support each other so that if a big storm comes they don’t get blown over as easy.
These kinds of old growth forests are mostly all gone.
There used to be a large canary here that employed over a thousand people. That closed a long time ago - without the forest and with the increases in pollution, the conditions that the fish needed were gone.
I think someone called it, “shifting the baseline,” when you look around at what you see today and think it was always like this. Most people do not remember a time when the rivers were full of fish around here or large trees were all over.
I remember a time when, if you drove across the country you had to clean you windshield every time you stopped for gas because there were so many bugs on it you could hardly see. There are not as many bugs now.
Taken August 2017, last years apple tree with a pine tree in background, f/1.7 1/60 4.2mm ISO125 Galaxy S7 – click for viewing full screen
I guess I’ve got the, “Earth day blues,” lol. I really wonder what kind of future we are making.
Weather patterns are shifting and we may even have an ice free ocean event sometime this summer in the Arctic.
The Atlantic ocean circulation has slowed down by as much a fifteen percent as compared to the mid 20th century, which doesn’t sound like much but it is around three times the amount of water that runs in all the rivers in the world per video below by Paul Beckwith.
A search on the net shows many different articles on this among this one by the Scientific American: Slow-Motion Ocean: Atlantic’s Circulation Is Weakest in 1,600 Years
I guess my apple tree harvest seems rather trivial by comparison.
But at least no trees were used in the creation of this blog post and I didn’t have to drive anywhere. Additionally, no photons were harmed in the taking of the pictures, as far as I know anyway, lol.
Thanks for reading! I always value your support and comments. The pictures were taken by me with my Galaxy S9+ and S7. The video is not my work and used by standard license. Tree Tuesday was started by @old-guy-photos
Hmm, if you put wontons in a pho soup, would it be photon soup? Anyone who denies climate change sure doesn't live where I live.Weird weather is happening more and more often. It's almost like the seasons are shifting, it stays nice longer in the fall, but spring arrives later. Can't be good for plants and animals that rely on those patterns
Lol, nice joke, hmm photon soup and I don't even have to travel to the universal singularity to get it. ;)
The weather has been unusual and things are rapidly changing.
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Whether with weather waits Willy weatherman's willful weather writings? LOL, just kidding. :)
I heard they serve a good one at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe! lol
That is odd about the tree only fruiting every two years but it looks to be a young tree. I have read somewhere that plants need to be stressed to fruit. Perhaps this years was too settled for the tree. You did get a really nice harvest for such a small tree the year before.
I live in a place where we are slowly getting back to understanding that nature must be nurtured and made essential to our daily living. There are a lot of forces thinking this way. We will get back to where we were. Blessing Lightsplasher:)
It is a young tree and perhaps it will start fruiting every year once it gets a bit bigger. The deer like to eat it but I've been protecting it pretty well with the fence lately. It has produced many nice harvests for such a young tree.
I hope that we all very quickly come to the understanding that nature must be nurtured. I think it is fine to be taking from nature, we have got to eat something and live somewhere, but we need to start thinking about what we can give back if things seem out of balance. Once we do that and start better cooperation world wide, I think things will really start to get so much easier for everyone. Blessings prydefoltz
Actually, thinking about it like, "taking and giving," might not be the best way - it seems like more of a mutually beneficial arrangement we have with nature. For example, the apple tree really doesn't care if I take the apples. In fact, it is helpful for it because I protect it from the deer. Now if I chopped it down to season the deer meat on the barbecue, I might think about if my actions are long term sustainable, lol. :D
We must keep everything in balance or nature will find a way to balance it for us. That is the way.
very nice with its apple tree treatments and with a little extra fertilizer it makes the trees grow and fruition in a sustainable time. it's a very genius idea on how to care for your apple tree friend @lightsplasher.
it's nice to have your own apple orchard close to your home @lightsplasher it's so much fun.
Growing your own food is a lot of fun for me. Lots of different things grow in my yard.
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This is very good, hopefully you get satisfactory results from this apple orchard.In our place there is no apple plant, in fact I also want to plant it
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Very good photo @lightsplasher, May your apple tree harvest this season, Apple, thank you very much for you to share with us, success always for you @lightsplasher.
WOW ! Last year your Apples was looking so good and fresh. This year your new apple tree also growing very well and healthy. You should take care about it more. I'm waiting to see this year your Fresh and big Apples. Hope you will share the update with us. Thanks for sharing, Have a Good Day. @lightsplasher
An apple tree needs a certain amount of attention from its caregivers to ensure that it grows in a healthy way. For instance, an apple tree needs to be planted in a place where it will receive enough sunlight to grow. Furthermore, the spot should have adequate drainage so the apple tree will not absorb more water than it needs to live. In fact, if an apple tree's roots take in too much water there's a chance the tree will not survive.
You planted it at right place where it can take enough sunlight. Care about it's enough water too , which is another most important thing. Hope your apple tree gonna give you lovely apples so soon : )
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