Natural Art

Jeff · January 04, 2009, 11:25:10 AM

Last fall while I was bucking and topping aspen logs, I noticed a chuck of the top that had broken out and was just laying there. I nipped the end off from it with the saw and picked it up and brought it home. It just sits around here and there, but we like it. Its natural sculpture.

WDH · January 04, 2009, 11:44:43 AM

That looks like Populous convolutus ;D.

Jeff · January 04, 2009, 11:45:59 AM

That really started getting me to look closer at the tops of those trees. Its hard to find one that does not have that sort of form in it somewhere.

DanG · January 04, 2009, 12:59:42 PM

Quote from: WDH on January 04, 2009, 11:44:43 AM
That looks like Populous convolutus ;D.

:D :D Good name for it! 8)

There is a Pinus convolutus too, but most folks call it Loblolly. I can sit for hours and enjoy the art in the tops of the overgrown pines in my yard. I'll hafta get some pics.

Ironwood · January 04, 2009, 01:46:57 PM

Good eye. There is SOOOO much cool stuff out there. This is one of my favorite hiking past times. (when I had time to hike)

Ironwood

Bro. Noble · January 04, 2009, 01:55:05 PM

Well, that looks to me like that 'medicated' spider that the Texas Ranger showed us years ago-----after it became old and arthritic :D :D

Jeff · January 04, 2009, 02:21:41 PM

I consider this natural art.

When I was a kid, my dad use to always take us to Deer Park State Park on Muskellunge lake, that sits just a short walk from Lake Superior. We use to hike to Superior to look for rocks. Probably where the root of my love of searching for pudding stones comes from.

On one of these hikes I found the stone pictured below. Its one of the very few possessions I have from before I was 8 years old. I looked into the water, and there sat this hamburger. I mean I hollered that there was an actual hamburger sitting in the water. I was not allowed to go in after rocks because of the rip current, so my dad went in and got it for me. He said after that that I truly was Wimpy. Before that my Dad always used to call me Wimpy because I could eat more hamburgers when I was 6 or 7 years old then he could.

The hamburger is so realistic that most of our dogs have tried to chomp on it when I offer it up to them.

JV · January 04, 2009, 02:40:33 PM

Haven't had lunch yet, now I know what I'm hungry for. digin_2

Nature has a lot of beautiful and unusual sights, if you're willing to take the time to look.

Ironwood · January 04, 2009, 03:44:59 PM

NICE, where are the onions? The geology buff in me is also intrigued. I love desert back country travel for that reason. Big Bend is my favorite, I have found dinasour bones, caves of crystal, indian artifacts, lots good stuff! eastern decidious forests (and coastal west) are great for tree stuff, roots etc... deserts are good for rocks, BEST rocks? Redwood creek in northern California, wild colors of granite and tons of others.

Ironwood

isawlogs · January 04, 2009, 04:23:36 PM

That is nice ,up in James Bay the poplar are mostly all like that , they are wind blown into mushroom shape . I suspect your place up there to be somewhat the same , the poplar being much taller then the other trees around them , they get most of the wind and fold over creating those branches .

Dodgy Loner · January 04, 2009, 07:18:43 PM

I thought it was a moldy biscuit when I first saw the picture. I was momentarily wondering if Yankees normally put ketchup and mustard on their moldy bread ;).

Jeff · January 04, 2009, 07:19:20 PM

Whats a Yankee?

stonebroke · January 04, 2009, 07:30:29 PM

I don't think Jeff is a Yankee, he's a yooper.

Stonebroke

WildDog · January 05, 2009, 04:18:53 AM

I like the rock, reminds me of my sisters first batch of scones when we were kids, after we ate one I recall dad said to me she must of quarryed them instead of baking. :D

Texas Ranger · January 05, 2009, 09:54:17 AM

::)Yooper, doesn't that define a Yankee's Yankee?

Dodgy Loner · January 05, 2009, 11:57:00 AM

Everyone north of Kentucky and Virginia is a Yankee. A yooper is a specific breed of Yankee that exhibits exceptional cold tolerance and a stranger dialect than the average Yankee.

Jeff · January 05, 2009, 12:12:31 PM

I'm not a yooper and I'm not a Yankee and I'm not a Red Neck or southern boy. I wasn't born in the U.P. so I can't be a yooper. I'm born of southern blood as my mom was born and raised south of Charleston West Virginia and her family name was McClure. Most all of my maternal relatives are there and south. My Dad's side come from everywhere North south east and west.

I'm Jeffrey Brokaw and I'm the custodian here and a Grandson of Bourgon Brocard . That's about the only label that would be entirely accurate.

tcsmpsi · January 05, 2009, 12:22:36 PM

Quote from: Dodgy Loner on January 05, 2009, 11:57:00 AM
Everyone north of Kentucky and Virginia is a Yankee. A yooper is a specific breed of Yankee that exhibits exceptional cold tolerance and a stranger dialect than the average Yankee.

From these parts, everyone north of Austin is a Yankee.

Gary_C · January 05, 2009, 01:57:06 PM

Jeff that is very interesting to know some family history like that. How did you find that information?

Ya, these labels just don't fit very well anymore. My maternal grandmother was a Grey from England and Wales so perhaps I could say I have royal blood, but then I remember what those Tudor's did to Jane Grey and maybe I don't want to say that. :D

And it seems that line is much more visible from the south side than it is from the north. :

Texas Ranger · January 05, 2009, 02:13:59 PM

Ya don't eat grits, you are a DanG yankee. 8)

Jeff · January 05, 2009, 02:22:26 PM

Quote from: Texas Ranger on January 05, 2009, 02:13:59 PM
Ya don't eat grits, you are a DanG yankee. 8)

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,9913.0.html

Gary_C · January 05, 2009, 02:38:43 PM

Quote from: Texas Ranger on January 05, 2009, 02:13:59 PM
Ya don't eat grits, you are a DanG yankee. 8)

Well Tex, maybe you are right. Most people say this country is divided politically, but perhaps it is divided by geography with the Yankees or rather non grits eaters on the north and the sore losers that are forced to eat grits on the south. :D :D :D :D

Gary_C · January 05, 2009, 02:57:59 PM

I have collected a few rocks from the farm, more than I wanted but some are memorable although not as tasty looking as Jeff's. Here is one I found along the edge of some peat lands.

It looks like a weapon that someone made with a chipped out hole for the handle. Was probably used for clubbing unwary ducks at night. There are some red stains that have always been there and I assume that is blood. At least it sounds like a good story. ;D

sharp edge · January 05, 2009, 03:00:32 PM

Hey, I like grits + black eyed beens. But won't move a inch south.

SE

Jeff · January 05, 2009, 03:10:40 PM

Gary, that rock is a dandy. I've got a rock here that I thought was a tool that I thought I posted before but cant find it, so maybe I never did. I dug it up in the back yard when we were first building some 25 years ago. I ended up taking it to the local university and they did tell me what it was, and that it was a tool made by, lets see if I can make this politically correct eh, Made by a quote: (but not a quote) "Not so bright Native American"

I'm almost positive I posted it here 6 or 7 years ago as a "whatzit" I'll have to take another photo.