Photos of Trees (Canon, sx10is, camera, shot)

[AntonioR]

This is a print-screen from a video I did during my November 2011 visit to the La Isabela National Park in the Dominican Republic.

For those of you that don't know, La Isabela was the first European settlement in the New World, founded by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and named in honor of Queen Isabella of Spain, who financed the voyage that lead to the discovery of the New World.

Today the site consist mostly of ruins of many of the first European stone structures constructed in the Americas, the graves of the original Spaniards that accompanied Columbus on his second voyage (and a skeleton of one of the men is on display), among other interesting things including this tree.

According to the guide, this tree is called Guayacan. Christopher Columbus had written about the particular tree shown here. He also said that the wood of this tree doesn't float and with time petrifies. As you can see, the tree is still alive, 500 years after the European discovery of the New World.

I apologize for not having a real photo, I regret having taking only video with my D-SLR camera and now having to do a print-screen to get the nearest thing to a photo.

But at least is something and I'm sure almost no one here even knew that this historic tree even exist.

There is also another notable tree still alive in another part of that area under which the first Christian mass in the Americas was celebrated. I haven't done a print-screen for that one, but if anyone wants me to, just let me know.

[janelle144]

[Just1Lion]

san diego palm (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65751725@N03/6137210378/ - broken link) by DMdeathwalker (http://www.flickr.com/people/65751725@N03/ - broken link), on Flickr
ocean beach san diego

[Jaggy001]

Sequoia

[michigan83]

Cadillac, MI:

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/180253_867536218525_22406215_46943458_2430310_n.jp g (broken link)

[michigan83]

A maple tree at Michigan State University...

[TheDragonslayer]

Sitka spruce, my truck for scale. Northern California is the southern most extension of this trees that lives all the way to Alaska.

[PJSinger]

I was visiting friends in their log home on Christmas day and took a walk on their property.
Here are a couple of pix I took from the deer path about 20 yards from the house.

[michigan83]

Some "ghost trees" that have been buried by the huge sand dunes along Lake Michigan:

[Nephler]

And here is an odd one... Growing upside down.