Friday, April 07, 2017

Hula pines

I think I've photographed these trees before, but from a different angle (I did, look here). They're located not far off our normal walking route, in a patch of woods that has recently been logged. The cut wood is neatly stacked and covered nearby. I assume it will become firewood. The curvy trees are conifers and therefore not suitable for firewood.

These trees are bent toward the southwest, opposite of the normal prevailing wind direction around here.

It's hard to imagine what caused the curve in these trunks. It may have been a wind storm some time in years past that bent the young trees without toppling them, after which they continued to grow normally. The bending seems to have only happened in this one section of woods.

6 comments:

  1. It's a fascinating and somewhat mystical look. And I love your name for them.

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  2. I would guess, strictly guessing, that it is something to do with light. Something was blocking their light which caused them to grow towards light at an angle and then what was blocking the light disappeared, so they straightened up.

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  3. The spaceship has landed!!! Weird curves in those trees. Any strange lights in the sky that you remember from old?

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  4. This must be the kind of thing that people wrote fairy tales about :)

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  5. that is very weird looking

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  6. The wind knocked some young pine trees down around here and we pushed them back up and they grew back in a strange way sort of like your "hula pines"

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