#cedar tree

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This was an incredibly beautiful nurse stump I found on Alder Ridge at Oxbow Regional Park in Oregon (it's near the flight path for Portland International Airport, hence the plane sounds near the end.) This is likely an old western red cedar (Thuja plicata) stump, hollowed out by decay and hosting a wide variety of mosses, lichens, fungi and other living beings. It was probably a good four feet in diameter at the base, perhaps a little larger, and while large portions of it have long since returned to the soil and the nutrient cycle, this ancient tree continues to feed the forest.

[thunderstruck9]

Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943), Cedar Tree, Coombe Bank, 1913. Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm.

[brownie-pics]

朝活中、妙に気になる木に出会いました･･🌲

’24.11.10 東大寺指図堂付近にて

[metasattva]

Autumn 2024_109 4 seasons in the neighborhood, Japan

[llovinghome]

[mrkoppa]

23 November 2024 | Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

[dawsio]

Shout out to the best Twitter post in the entire world

[alcnfr]

Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) always look particular good in sunlit Eastern Red Cedar trees (Juniperus virginiana).

[queerdreamlandrebel]

I love how the sunlight illuminates the snow on the leaning cedars, little winter sunlight magic.

[oogleboogleoogle]

Mossy Cedar.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This was an encounter with a really nice nurse stump that I had earlier this fall. Dead trees are the pantry of the forest; all the nutrients they stored in their wood throughout their lifetime is freed by detritivores and decomposers, and becomes available to plants like the western red cedar in the video.

[alixvalentinephotography]

November 2020. Burgundy, France.

[theweeowlart]

The Cedar of Lebanon tree. A large evergreen conifer that has great religious and historical significance in the cultures of the Middle East, and is referenced many times in the literature of ancient civilisations.

[metasattva]

Autumn 2024_98 4 seasons in the neighborhood, Japan

[zaccharine-vulture]

Cedar x Lichen

[mrkoppa]

23 November 2024 | Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin