Just a tree, just some snow

[Jeff]

I couldn't think of an existing place off hand to post this, but wanted to share the view from my desk window this morning. 

[submarinesailor]

OUTSTANDING  Picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Magicman]

And share you did.   

[WildDog]

Nice pic, would look good on a calendar

[CLL]

Nice picture would look good on Christmas Card as well.

[beenthere]

That is what winter is all about, and worth every second of it. IMO   

Thanks for sharing.

[T Welsh]

I saw it this morning when I logged in on front page. thought to myself that is a perfect picture of this time of year. keep them coming Jeff,its what makes the forum so great (the personal touch) Tim

[Autocar]

Jeff pretty picture I hear storys from snow machine folks talking about the snow in the U.P. about how it lays 6/10 inches on crossarms on power poles. Dosen't the wind blow very much up there ? Here at my place most generaly the wind blows it off, sure would like to retire in the least windyest place in the country  ;)

[bandmiller2]

Jeff, how much woods behind your home? can you hunt out there? We're bare ground here,its so pretty and pure when it first falls. Frank C.

[Texas Ranger]

That's what I like about winter, some other fellas picture of the snow and ice  from far away. 8)

[Woodwalker]

That's what I like about winter, some other fellas picture of the snow and ice  from far away. 8)

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[doctorb]

It's a good thing for that tree that you have some allergies in the family that causes you to use an artificial one at Christmas!  Wish we had some snow!  If you took that pic through the window, I need to hire your window washers!  Nice photo.

[Corley5]

 8) 8)  Looks like you've got more snow down there than we've got  8) 8) 

[Jeff]

Doc, I assure you, that photo would not be very appealing if I shot it through the window, I went outside to take it because we have screens on. I won't comment on how clean the windows may or may not be. ;)

  That Tree had really taken off in the last few years. It's not the first time I've posted about it either. Greg, we have somewhere around 10 inches I think.

This Blue Spruce was originally planted by my Dad in the spring of 1967 on a north facing red clay hillside.  It stood there stunted without growing but a few inches until 1984, the year Tammy and I moved into this house. Dad and I dug it up along with a little white spruce and planted them next to each other here in the front yard.   Both trees were less then 3 feet tall at the time. They lived and seemed healthy but continued to grow very slowly.  In 2000, they were just about 6 foot tall.  In hopes it would help the blue to grow, we decided to cut the White Spruce down to use as our Christmas tree that year, the year I worked on the Tree of Hope Capital Tree Project.  The following spring the Blue Spruce finally took to growing, and has been putting on an average of over a foot a year.

In the last 8 years our little Blue Spruce has grown to be 18 feet tall and has become the beautiful addition to our front yard that we had always envisioned. 

[Norm]

That's a beautiful tree Jeff. Thanks for reminding me on it's history. 

[Riggs]

Beautiful

[Corley5]

We've probably got 6".  It blew around so much the day it showed up that it's hard to tell  ;D

[chain]

The winter forest, a beautiful scene. Many times, if I thought it snowed in our woods I'd jump in my truck and get up there to witness and enjoy the beauty of a new fallen snow; reminds me of my favorite poem:

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

[Autocar]

I like your poem chain  ;)

[Jeff]

Jeff, how much woods behind your home? can you hunt out there? We're bare ground here,its so pretty and pure when it first falls. Frank C.

I'll make you a video.

[Chuck White]

Looks like a Christmas tree!   



only, don't cut it.

[Jeff]

Here ya go Frank. I didn't know I had a smudge on the lens.  We actually used to squirrel hunt here twenty years ago, until they started building so many homes close by. It can't get any more congested as to the east I own to the end of the road, and the other lots surrounding me have already been built on. And no one is going to build across the road from me due to the sheer drop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCas_j6AzAU

[Texas Ranger]

From my memory, it would be a short video, and a real short range shot.  But, still, fun place.

[Al_Smith]

Coincidently I have a similar view .The blue spruce was short enough when we bought this place some 14 years ago I could reach the top from a 10 foot step ladder .It's right at 30 or so  feet now .

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

With me hating COLD weather and looking at all that snow, thank goodness I live in the South! 

That must be at least 6-8" of snow.