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Bob Tregilus
Bob Tregilus
@elaterite@mastoart.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Holding on!

Literally, strong roots.

(Lake Davis, California.)

#Trees #Lake #Forest #Landscape #Photography #Darktable

A color portrait photo of three conifer trees. The sky is lightly streaked with very thin clouds but it is most blue. In the background is a thick conifer forest on a hill that raise slightly toward the left side of the frame. In the foreground and on the right is the flat surface of a frozen lake. A steep eroded bank juts out from the left. It is curved in a crescent shape up from the lake. Three tall conifer trees that have been growing for decades on the bank have, over the years, had the bottom of there root systems exposed due to the erosion of the bank. This has left them balance over the lake on nothing but there roots. Otherwise the trees look green and healthy.
A color portrait photo of three conifer trees. The sky is lightly streaked with very thin clouds but it is most blue. In the background is a thick conifer forest on a hill that raise slightly toward the left side of the frame. In the foreground and on the right is the flat surface of a frozen lake. A steep eroded bank juts out from the left. It is curved in a crescent shape up from the lake. Three tall conifer trees that have been growing for decades on the bank have, over the years, had the bottom of there root systems exposed due to the erosion of the bank. This has left them balance over the lake on nothing but there roots. Otherwise the trees look green and healthy.
A color portrait photo of three conifer trees. The sky is lightly streaked with very thin clouds but it is most blue. In the background is a thick conifer forest on a hill that raise slightly toward the left side of the frame. In the foreground and on the right is the flat surface of a frozen lake. A steep eroded bank juts out from the left. It is curved in a crescent shape up from the lake. Three tall conifer trees that have been growing for decades on the bank have, over the years, had the bottom of there root systems exposed due to the erosion of the bank. This has left them balance over the lake on nothing but there roots. Otherwise the trees look green and healthy.
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Tamami
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@tamami@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@elaterite I'll have to look for them next time I'm out there!

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Bob Tregilus
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@elaterite@mastoart.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@tamami It was somewhere along the east shoreline. But the photo is from 2020. I should go take a look myself to see if they are still there! Good excuse to get the kayak out, when it is warmer, though.

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Tamami
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@tamami@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@elaterite I hiked there once last year, but no one was there and was too quiet... Strange that I'm fine being totally alone on my favorite trails, but in unfamiliar places I get so creeped out 😅

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Bob Tregilus
Bob Tregilus
@elaterite@mastoart.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@tamami It is easy to do. I sometimes have that problem when hiking at night, especially moonless nights. Sometimes it will occur to me that it is prime mountain lion territory. And that spark mushrooms into thinking a cat is following me. I will turn my headlamp up high & flash it around looking for eyes. Then I settle down & remember that loin attacks are extremely rare & that I have my trekking poles to use as weapons...if the cat doesn't just jump me from behind & bite my neck! 😬 😂

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Tamami
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@tamami@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@elaterite Yes, especially during the winter, I worry about the big cats. I have several friends who refuse to use trekking poles, because they think poles are for old folks, and then I tell them about the fighting chances they'd have if they had the poles... hahaha

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