More photos from my walk in the woods with my husband for @parul2411's #ThursdayTreeLove

 
1. I know this shot probably looks familiar, but believe it or not, this is a different tree than the one I've featured before. In fact, I'm not even sure this is a Shagbark Hickory, and my husband and I spent some time arguing trying to figure out if it was.
 
 
2. It has similar moss on it (which probably isn't really a factor), and the bark is peeling a bit, but not in the long strips like we usually see.
 
 
3. But it does look like these little nubs of bark were once longer... at least I thought so.
 
 
4. However on other parts of the trunk, it looked a little different from what the Shagbark usually does.
 
 
5. This sort of blocky look made me think it might be some sort of hybrid tree.
 
 
6. Regardless of what kind of tree it is, it still looks glorious, especially against the blue sky!
 
 
7. I mentioned Lion Rock in my last post, and said I didn't get a good shot of it, so I included an old snap. This is one of the handful of shots I took that day, and now that I've adjusted the exposure a bit, I think you can almost see the lion's face.
 
 
8. The view above.
 
 
9. The last time I ventured out this way (back when my camera battery was being naughty), I tried to get some shots of the baby trees sprouting up. While I don't think I managed to get the same baby tree, it certainly looks pretty close!
 
 
9a. Here's the older shot (that I dubbed "Groot!") - don't they look kind of similar?
 
 
10. This little guy was only a few feet away from the other, and even though it looks like just a little branch on the ground, I took a peek under the leaves and saw that it's rooted & growing.
 
 
11. Another shot of my husband I took as kind of a joke. While he was actually answering a fairly important text from our mechanic (yes, the car issues continue, but I'll save that bit of whining news for another post), I decided to title this one, "Man enjoying the great outdoors." 😂
 
 
12. Of course, if it weren't for my husband being with me, I might have missed seeing this cool little bit of deadwood, with its porthole-like opening.
 
 
13. We'd actually started to head back towards the house when he pointed it out to me, and I took a lazy shot from a distance. This less-than-ideal photo was the result...lol!
 
 
14. This less lazy shot was taken after I traipsed back through the path we'd already walked down, to get it from only a few feet away whilst crouching down a bit.
 
 
15. The view behind the fallen log when I stood up. And I didn't realize until just now you can see our two shadows in the bottom right.
 
 
16. I semi-crouched back down to take a couple thousand captures through the hole.
 
 
17. Different angle, different exposure.
 
 
18. Standing to the right of the log.
 
 
19. Because 90 million shots wasn't enough, I went behind the log and took some shots from the opposite direction.
 
 
20. Then I realized the setting sun was low enough that I could finagle it into the shots!
 
 
21. Bokeh in its natural habitat.
 
 
22. When I first saw this shot, I was disappointed that the sun wasn't more defined. However now I kind of like how moody and atmospheric this turned out.
 
 
23. A shot of the setting sun after I stood up, but as I said before, this was far from the last shot of the afternoon. I might do the rest (which include shots of mushrooms, moss, and some cool looking tree pairings) for a Wednesday Walk post in the near future, rather than using them for the next Tree Love post in two weeks. I'm hoping by that time to I'll be able to get out and take some new pictures showing signs of spring!
 
 

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