Category: Cottonwoods

Trees & Fiery Skies

Timothy Price46 Comments
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Sunset glow on Resa’s Tree 

As I walked out to where I could see the sunset last night, I photographed the trees in the afterglow. When I got out by Tiffany’s tree, I turned around to see a blazing sky lit up by clouds glowing like embers, their flames bursting into the heavens.

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Robin’s Tree in the afterglow.
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Tiffany’s Tree reflecting red.
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Susan’s Tree on the edge of a fiery sky.
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Susan’s, Lavinia’s, and Resa’s Trees in front of a blazing sky.
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Silhouette of Resa’s Tree against the fiery sky.
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Blazing sky behind Lavinia’s tree in the center.
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Fiery sky gives way to smokey clouds behind Susan’s Tree.

Trees at Sunset

Timothy Price38 Comments
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Holly’s Tangle-Heart Tree
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Cool clouds over the levee and bosque.
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Susan’s Tree, Teagan’s Trees, Robin’s Tree, and the unclaimed Tree. There’s an owl in Teagan’s Tree.
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Teagan’s Tree with an owl perched in it.

Below is a closer shot of the owl in Teagan’s Tree. The owl flying over us as we walked towards it on the ditch bank. The owl landed in a tree behind me along the ditch bank. Two closeups of the owl.

Trees for Teagan

Timothy Price84 Comments
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This photo is of two old gnarly Cottonwoods behind the shed. They are very difficult to photograph individually, so these come as a pair.

Teagan, of Teagan’s Books, and I have been following each other for years, and for some reason, Teagan had not claimed a tree. Here are the remaining cottonwoods on the property and a Blues Spruce she can choose from. If none of these seem fitting, there are a lot more trees in the bosque.

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Dwarf Blue Spruce on the north side of the house. It was a tiny tree when we planted in in 2001.
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This is an old Cotton by the 280 ZX. A lot of branches have broken off of it over the years, leaving it sinuous and sparse. This is a view of it looking south.
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This is a view of the 280 ZX tree looking east.
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This is the young Cottonwood look south. It gets obscured in winter by all the other trees around it.
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You cottonwood and Dot’s Black Bamboo looking west.
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Young cottonwood looking west.

Trees in the Snow

Timothy Price61 Comments
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Resa’s Tree

Snow has fallen most of the day. After I got home, I went out and photographed the trees on our property that have been claimed.

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Robin’s Tree
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Tiffany’s Tree? I don’t remember if Tiffany claimed this tree or not.
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Susan’s Tree
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Resa’s Tree from a different point of view
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Susan’s Tree from a different point of view
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Birds foraging in the snow
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Lyn’s Tree with Resa’s Tree in the back ground
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Black bamboo bowing low in the snow

The Twelfth Day of Bosque Christmas

Timothy Price23 Comments

Tomorrow is Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas. I wrote a version of the Twelve Days of Christmas using the bosque animals that starts with the 12th day of bosque Christmas. Special guest Suzette Presti was gracious enough to do the vocals. Enjoy.

The Twelfth Day of Bosque Christmas
Lyrics by Timothy Price
Vocals: Suzette Presti
Arrangement: Timothy Price
Guitar, bass, percussion: Timothy Price

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Twelve coyotes crooning
Eleven flickers flitting
Ten finches feeding
Nine seagulls sailing
Eight badgers burrowing
Seven cats a purring
Six crows a cawing
Five beaver slaps
Four geese honking
Three cranes in flight
Two owls to hoot and
A pterodactyl in the Tangle-Heart Tree.