Plenty of Nothing

Long-Stemmed

Shelterbelt

In response to the 1930s Dust Bowl the US federal government authorized the reforestation of part of the Great Plains, encouraging farmers to plant windbreaks along the edges of their properties. The result was the Great Plains Shelterbelt. Source.

Oasis

Heart of Chestnut

May 30 [1790]. John Carpenter brings home from the Plashet at Rotherfield some old chest-nut trees which are very long. In several places the wood-peckers had begun to bore them. The timber & bark of these trees are so very like oak, as might easily deceive an indifferent observer, but the wood is very shakey, & towards the heart cup-shakey, so that the inward parts are of no use. They were bought for the purpose of cooperage, but must make but ordinary barrels, buckets, &c. Chestnut sells for half the price of oak; but has some times been sent into the King's docks, & passed off instead of oak.

Gilbert White, Journals, pages 358-59.

cup-shakey = tending to split along the rings

Citadel Windfalls

Lily in a Hedge

Morning Glories

Linden Blossoms #2

Linden Blossoms

From Darkness Pink