Ouachita sunrise

RED IN THE MORNING – Beautiful fall sunrise. Taken Dec. 10, 2014.

Weekly photo challenge: Relic

This week’s photo challenge theme is relic. Our relic is a pine tree, giving life to fungi.

RELIC — Fungi cover the remains of a pine tree.

And others of today’s relics that we liked:

• Dinosaur – http://chattel.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/weekly-photo-challenge-relic/
• Phone boxes – http://ambitiousdrifter.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/weekly-photo-challenge-relics/
• Hearth – http://quabbinvalley.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/bassettville-part-ii-hacketts-lodge/
• Boat – http://justanothernatureenthusiast.org/2014/07/11/relic-weekly-photo-challenge/
• Rusted – http://ceenphotography.com/2014/07/11/wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge-relic/comment-page-1/#comment-19545
• Instrumental – http://helenchen.ws/2014/07/11/wordpress-weekly-photo-challenge-relic/

 

Weeping pine

While attending to the weekly hill workout, a glint caught my eye on the way up.  One of the more than 170 pine trees that needed to be cut in the days following the Christmas Day 2012 blizzard, had been weeping sap. Its “frozen” tears caught the afternoon light.

FUTURE AMBER – Pine sap drips ever so slowly from a sawn trunk.

Out on a limb.

This green anole should be blending in with the foliage, but here he’s branched out, taking quite a chance on the trunk of this pine tree.

Green anole looking for love in all the wrong places.