A man wearing a baby next to a Muir Woods giant coast redwood.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#MuirWoods
#SequoiaSempervirens

Rough, wavy bark on a coast redwood tree
#SequoiaSempervirens
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#OregonStateCapitol

#silentsunday One of the quietest places in the world is inside a hollowed out old-growth coastal #redwood tree. 🌲

Step inside. Surrounded by many feet of wood, sounds of the world fade and leave a silence filled with breath and heartbeat.

Historically, fires 🔥 burned through these groves, burning center deadwood out and leaving blackened-but-living outer wood.

Look at the range of color inside one of these giants. #trees #naturephotography #SequoiaSempervirens

Splinter from a fallen giant, Santa Cruz County, CA. #SequoiaSempervirens
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Fire-scarred stump of an old growth redwood tree, at the center of a "fairy ring" or "family circle" of second growth trees. Marin County, CA. #SequoiaSempervirens
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In a serendipitous turn of events, I am at the #AvenueOfTheGiants on #ThickTrunkTuesday. This is one of my favorite places on earth. Here is a #CoastRedwood from the Avenue.

#California #redwoods #Sequoia #SequoiaSempervirens #Humboldt #HumboldtRedwoodsStatePark #Pixel6a #photo #photography

Just seen #ThickTrunkTuesday and felt this was worthy. A champion tree sadly felled by Storm Arwen earlier this year along with 49 others at National Trust Bodnant Gardens. It was a Sequoia sempervirens (coastal Redwood) It stood over 50 metres tall.
#StormArwen
#SequoiaSempervirens
#BodnantGardens