Day Ninety-Eight: Along the Springwater Corridor

Grey afternoon along the trail, looking for a way to see Johnson
Creek up close.  Our first Fall rain day, albeit more of a drizzle.  Great Blue Heron wading in the creek, why not me?  

Day Ninety-Seven: After Sally Mann

From her book, What Remains

Day Ninety-Six: Neat Little Dogwood at Powell Butte

"Small heads of inconspicuous flowers surrounded by an involucre of large, typically white petal-like bracts."  These look like bracts but not "petal-like bracts."

Wikipedia

"Dogwoods have simple, untoothed leaves with the veins curving distinctively as they approach the leaf margins."  This description fits what we saw on the butte.

 Wikipedia

Day Ninety-Five: Trees, trees, trees.

 Emil the forester came to visit and all we did was trees.  Day One Friday:  visit to the park site where we were going to participate in a citizen science tree inventory for the PPR Urban Forestry project.  Between us, we saw many trees we knew and quite a few that seemed transplanted from my days in Virginia.  Or were hiding secret forest creatures.

How many faces do you see here?  

Abstraction of tree bark #1

Abstraction of tree bark #2

Day Two:  Tree Inventory at Sellwood Park. Emil was transported back to his forester days after graduating Humboldt State.  Diameter breast height, clinometer for overall height, eyeballing the tree's general health, etc.

 

Day Three:  We did a tour of four outstanding trees in the neighborhood, a Coulter Pine heritage tree* on SE 37th and three Sequoiadendron giganteum at "Save the Giants" park on SE Martins.  

Coulter Pine Heritage Tree

These three sequoiadendron dominate the skyline; just look up

Want to know more about street and park trees in your Portland neighborhood?  Check out this PPR urban forestry site.  



 *I am in search of a Coulter pine cone to add to my collection of cones....no luck that day and who knows, collection from a heritage tree may not be wise anyway.