#Red Spruce

[vandaliatraveler]

Walk with me: Visit to a high-elevation red spruce forest. The red spruce (Picea rubens) forest on top of Red Spruce Knob, the ninth highest peak in West Virginia, provides a bittersweet glimpse back in time to the primeval beauty and solitude of such places prior to the arrival of the logging companies in the mid-Nineteenth to early Twentieth centuries. The loggers stripped the mountains bare and set in motion the massive wildfires that burned away everything, including the soil itself, down to solid bedrock. Almost a century later, the forest is regenerating and in some places, such as Red Spruce Knob, has regained the richness and vitality of a healthy boreal ecosystem.

From top: a view of Red Spruce Knob, in the far distance, from the Highland Scenic Highway overlook; Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), a ubiquitous understory component of the forest, along with mountain woodsorrel, yellow clintonia (a.k.a. blue-bead lily), hobblebush viburnum, Indian cucumber, green false hellebore, and various mosses and ferns; yellow clintonia (Clintonia borealis) in bloom; pink lady's slipper (Cypripedium acaule); green false hellebore (Veratrum viride) on eastern hay-scented fern (Dennstaedtia punctilobula); and mountain woodsorrel (Oxalis montana).

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #wildflowers #spring #flora #allegheny mountains #monongahela national forest #red spruce knob #highland scenic highway #red spruce #canada mayflower #yellow clintonia #blue-bead lily #pink lady's slipper #false green hellebore #eastern hay-scented fern #mountain woodsorrel #mountain wood-sorrel #boreal forest

[sagehaubitze]

The road to Clingmans Dome is closed seasonally (for the winter months), so we weren't able to visit when we were in the area in February. Not the case this time though.

I was much more fascinated with the unique flora to the area than the views, to be completely honest. The highest elevations around the Smokies are spruce-fir forest, predominantly red spruce and Fraser fir, the latter of which is endangered and is being destroyed by the invasive balsam woolly adelgid. These are considered coniferous rainforests, and the biodiversity is incredibly rich. Ice age climates pushed boreal species much further south than their usual range, and a lot of them persisted in these higher elevations. A neat current example, which I did not know until I saw an absolute shit ton of them, are dark-eyed juncos. They appear in the backyard here in north AL to overwinter, and spend their summers far north in Canada and up into the arctic. They live year-round through the peaks of the Appalachians though! They were a friendly surprise.

Conservation efforts for the Fraser fir and other at-risk flora are making progress at slowing the damage, but the sheer amount of dead snags hurts to look at. Some of them harbored some pretty incredible moss and lichen growth though.

Hemlocks are also being effected by the hemlock woolly adelgid, which is a problem we're dealing with in north AL as well. I believe the land trust just had a meeting about it recently. Within our lifetime though, we may no longer have eastern hemlock here.

#photography #my photography #nature #Clingmans Dome #coniferous rainforest #forest #autumn #fall #red spruce #fraser fir

[high-quality-tiktoks]

A reserve growing red spruce seedlings says it has “an unprecedented 90 percent success rate” of survival for its red spruce trees.

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #news #nature #tree #trees #red spruce #red spruce tree #red spruce trees #christmas #christmas tree #christmas trees #bychrisvazquez #washingtonpost

[0erpro]

Tommy, always the skrunckly

Todays Tree is the Red spruce tree and Tommy fits this tree perfectly!

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Sketch below!

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#0erpro #art #artoftheday #arts #draw #drawing #creative #artwork #color #colour #0erproart #0erprodrawing #procreate #procreateart #mcyts #mcyt #tommyinnit fanart #tommyinnit #red spruce #tree #tree series

[moss-abyss]

4. wood

#animation vs minecraft #avm red #avm tsc #avm yellow #avm green #avm blue #mossmakes #sticktober 2023 #i firmly believe tsc and blue are on team oak whereas green is on team spruce #they would fight about this dont even lie

[wooziswonderfulworld]

Dreamworks managed to create a boy band and give them equal line distribution, Pixar TAKE NOTES (I am talking about how Robaire sings 90% of all three songs like I wanna hear the others have full verses 🙄)

#dreamworks #trolls band together #brozone #john dory #trolls spruce #trolls clay #trolls floyd #branch #4town jesse #4town robaire #4town aaron z #4town aaron t #4town taeyoung #turning red 4town #4town headcanons

[graviconscientia]

Well, everyone else got to show off their costumes. And I am, as usual, a little behind schedule. But better late than never, right?

#ic #There is a bunny tail and red heels! #I could not contort myself properly to get them in the photo. #You'll just have to imagine my ass I guess! #Please do not imagine my feet. #[[quick and dirty/might spruce it up later]] #[[don't count on it]] #[[FUN FACT: addie wore this exact costume TEN YEARS AGO]] #[[like ten REAL LIFE YEARS. halloween 2013!! ain't that brazy]] #[[i'll dig up the old art maybe later idk]] #actually advoca #sometimes julia draws

[the-nerdy-fangirl]

had to do a sticky note scene from chapter 11 of Destinies Changed by @dragonempress001 while at work

bonus:

#fanart #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #role reversal au #brozone stays au #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls bruce #trolls spruce #trolls john dory #trolls branch #nixart #nix explanation #sticky note 1 has been colored after posting #in that I made the blood spatter red

[poppibranchlover]

If you think boy bands are becoming more frequent in some animated movies, then THINK AGAIN!!! 😁

BECAUSE NOW, we have two notable animated movies about the hottest boy bands EVER!!! Sorry if I couldn't help it, but Branch and his brothers (BroZone) are like a Troll-fied version of 4*Town from Pixar's Turning Red (as shown in the above pic). So whatever it is, this was a clear comparison to take note of. 😊

#dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #pixar turning red #turning red #turning red 2022 #branch #baby branch #bro zone #brozone #spruce #floyd #john dory #clay #4*town #robaire #jesse #aaron z #aaron t #tae young #trolls band together pictures #movie similarities #movie comparisons #similarities #comparison #YES....that makes sense.... #branch's boy band totally DID REMIND ME OF FREAKIN' 4*TOWN!!!!!!!!! #i couldn't help it you know i LOVE COMPARING!!!!!!!!! #note the similarities here will ya??? #maybe they were given inspiration from turning red to make this story xD

[aisling-saoirse]

Boreal bog in the Poconos - October 1st 2023

#black spruce #red maple #fall colors #original photography #photographers on tumblr #autumn

[vandaliatraveler]

Beautiful fall day many years ago on the heath plains of Dolly Sods.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #dolly sods #allegheny mountains #allegheny front #monongahela national forest #october #fall #heath #red spruce #picea rubens

[bingbongbunny]

Camera Quality boo but I really like this building - mud bricks are becoming one of my favorite blocks :0

#minecraft #mineblr #art #beloved #mud bricks #mc #spruce logs #red terracotta #spruce #blacksmith #Nether Wart Blocks #yum

[redskull-fanatic]

You can’t tell me he wasn’t down bad 💅💅

#my art #red skull #marvel #captain america #johann schmidt #marvel comics #the red skull #marvel fan art #avengers assemble #justin hammer #ship art #? #what would their name even be #red hammer?? #huh not too bad #anyway #have this old drawing I spruced up #it’s aight lookin #s h r u g #digital art #skammer

[xysidhe]

I've put way too much thought into the wand Reg gets in my fic. And by extension the wand everyone else gets too, ive also discovered as a result that Lily has a wand that to my understanding of what little we know of her (and a lot of her fanon interpretations) simply.... does not fit. And James' wand has no description for the wood, mahogany, on the wiki or on the Wizarding World website.

So now everyone is getting new wands yay.

#anyways Reg gets a yew wand with some extra funsies thrown in #i had to call in my friend to help ick since my short list was 7 woods and i was panicking #im panromantic and polyam i havent made a single choice my entire life #Also im thinking maybe rowan wood for Lily or James #maybe dogwood for James #their wands arent fully picked but Lily's will certainly not be willow #Rowan Red-Oak Cedar Alder mayyybe Holly are all better fits imho #for Lily #for James Dogwood is high on my list Alder as well English Oak Fir Pear Poplar Rowan Spruce is also a fav #wand lore is really fascinating and i wish we both had more info on it and that it was more prevalent in canon #anyways i spent like 4 hours researching send help #dead gay wizards #hp marauders #regulus arcturus black #jegulus #starchaser #regulus deserved better #regulus x james #harry potter marauders #james deserved better #lily evans #regulus black #james fleamont potter #regulus headcanon #marauders headcanon #oh and Sirius' wand is ebony dragon heart string its literally perfect for him

[friisans]

What job did the next generation parents have after being on the surface ?

answered this in an older post but i'll reiterate!

Sans: child psychiatrist at a children's facility

Toriel: parttime manager at Muffet's bakery

Papyrus: mayor (formerly a flowershop owner)

Red: news anchorwoman / reporter

Asgore: fulltime manager at an in-mall Starbucks (even tho he's a manager and only needs to do half the work his employees do, he loves his job and happily chooses to work as much as they do)

Undyne: physical trainer (runs a popular gym, occasionally holds yoga classes if she has the time)

Mettaton: famous singer (and actor)

Muffet: bakery owner (and Mettaton's manager)

Burgerpants: fulltime manager at a local Wendy's (but unlike Asgore, is perfectly fine doing half the work)

Catty: hairstylist (runs a chic hairsalon in the same mall as Asgore, also does makeup on the side)

Bratty, bc why not: fashion designer (recently started her own clothing line)

#this one has slightly more deets than the last! #also hc that Gori will sometimes stop by Catty's salon after work to bring her tea and some baked goods for the fam before heading home #she appreciates this alot and sometimes offers him great discounts at her salon (which he uses since he loves getting his hair spruced up) #at!chat #EDIT: my dumbass forgot Papyrus and Red lmao

[noir-poetography]

Aspen Trees and Colorado Spruce

© 2022, James Blatter

#quaking aspen #colorado spruce #blue spruce #Fall colors #fall foliage #red leaves #gold leaves #nature photography