Deciduous lightThe second part of this week's Two Things Challenge is Alike. For this, I chose these two pictures I took a few days ago. Both are trees, which makes them alike, but the top picture is a deciduous, or leaf-bearing, tree and the bottom picture is a coniferous, or needle-bearing, tree.
Coniferous renewalPhoto copyright: D.C. Confidential, 5/08
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Never seen any coniferous cones like this before. They are alike, but of course they are at the same time totally different!
Bev: I think this is how they look when they're young. But the fall, they'll be hard and brown. In truth, I've never payed attention until this year...
Beautiful shots. I was so excited when I moved to Seattle and was around so many deciduous trees that actually have leaves that turn in the Fall.
Maya: I love fall out here. It's so spectacular! Especially if we've had a fair amount of rain in the summer.
Pretty greenery. alike and differnt in so many ways.
I'm going to guess that the deciduous tree is a variety of maple, maybe a sugar maple, it has that small but wide maple leaf structure.
The coniferous tree is a white pine; that is my guess. Hard to tell, but it looks like 5 needles bundled in a group - a white pine. Red, (or Norway) pines have 2 needles bundled together.
Rob: You're right, the deciduous tree is a maple, but I have no clue on the coniferous. I thought it was a Ponderosa pine, but it probably isn't. My guess is, you're right and it's a Red/Norway pine.
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