Trees Posts

    WINTER PARK, FLORIDA   In navigating the second canal on the Chain of Lakes, the bamboo facing the canal waterway was especially dense.  Our guide informed us this is the type sold and used commercially. An eco-friendly crop typically grown without chemicals and pesticides, bamboo is very versatile and used for just about everything from floors to blue jeans.  Ho...

  "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.."   Ecclesiastes 3:1                  

  Seemingly frozen in time, lost in a bygone, almost forgotten era, where is this perfect idyllic setting?

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."       "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."   Psalm 1:2-3  King James Version              ...

Isn’t this a gorgeous palm with such beautiful composition?  A lovely tropical species, the cycad bears a misleading resemblance to the palm, when actually the cycad plant is not at all related to the palm species.  Relatives of today's cycads have been traced back nearly 300 million years.  They lived both during and after the time of the dinosaurs in the Mesozo...

There is unanimous agreement  that the Christmas tree originated in Germany.  History records that Hessian soldiers were celebrating with the complement of a tree when Washington and his men crossed the Delaware.  Pastor Henry Schwan is ascribed with setting up the first tree in a church setting in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1851.  England and France embraced the Christmas tree cus...

This fiery red blush must be the pinnacle of color the season offers.      But fall is quietly slipping away – as elusive as vapor in the mist.  How short the splendor!  Here and there…..only remnants of its fading glory.  How we shall miss it!    Tomorrow we visit the ‘City that Water Built’, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.  Join us as we le...

Pea Ridge National Military Park is uncommon among Civil War parks in the National Park System because it encompasses such a large portion of the original battlefield. The park’s jurisdiction includes the Elkhorn Tavern used by both Confederate and Union forces and a segment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears (refer to preceding post).  The Pea Ridge Campaign was about the battle that saved M...

      Autumn speaks and we are silent,We stand in the doorway    and behold its beauty.We can neither disturb nor detract from its splendor,We are hushed, lest we offend its voice,Even speechless in thought,Awed by its brilliance;Content, we acquiesce....for it is at our doorstep.                     ...

      When autumn comes to mind, one tends to think in Technicolor.  When it is upon us, our mental image is translated into visual enchantment.  Leaves and grasses rustle, temperatures fall, harvests of apples and pumpkins abound, and it seems as though we cannot satiate our appetite for this fall-color palette.  So, hop aboard this train to ‘anywhere ...