"Sycamore Patriarch" for #TreeTuesday and #ThickTrunkTuesday

An old Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), photographed at the Whitewater Preserve near Palm Springs in the Southern California Desert.

https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/trees-forest/-/medias/019dfa97-12ae-728b-8e8d-321e179344a4

#Trees #NaturePhotography #Sycamore #California #PalmSprings #Desert #SouthernCalifornia #Nature #TreesOfMastodon

New Photos? YES! New Photos.

I'm finally catching up - This image was taking this past February during an incredible foggy week. I named it after the tree shown on the cover of #EldenRing because well, it reminded me greatly of it. Such an incredible and cool tree to find.

If you want to see others, I just uploaded about 20 other frames to my site last night.

#TreeTuesday #thicktrunkTuesday #landscape #lpw #nature #photography #naturephotography

๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ. ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜•๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜œ๐˜ฌ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ค๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ, ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜™๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช ๐˜™๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜•๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜–๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ โ€” ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด, ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ:

๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜•๐˜–! ๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด, ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜•๐˜–!

โ€“ From Wolfgang Borchert's poem "There's only one choice" ("Dann gibt es nur eins"), written in 1947 shortly before his death at just 26.

I'm not usually into poetry and grand literature, but reading Borchert's works about World War II and its aftermath at school left a lasting impression on me. So whenever I see memorials or #graves from that time, Borchert isn't far from my mind. You can read the full poem in English and the original German, along with context and links, here: http://www.swans.com/library/art13/xxx123.html

This is a section of #Brno Central Cemetery, รšstล™ednรญ hล™bitov, with the graves of German #soldiers of the Second World War for #CemeterySunday.


#cemetery #graveyard #churchyard #Friedhof #tombStones #Grabsteine #Grabstein #tombStone #headstones #headstone #Grab #Grรคber #Soldaten #Soldatengrรคber #ThickTrunkTuesday #TreeTuesday #ZweiterWeltkrieg #SecondWorldWar #WorldWar2 #WorldWar #Weltkrieg #WorldWarII #ZentralfriedhofBrรผnn #Zentralfriedhof #Brรผnn

Brown Creeper
Sitgreaves National Forest, AZ

#photo #nature #WildBirds #TreeTuesday #PublicLands #Arizona

#FotoVorschlag

โ€œNatur in der Stadtโ€ / Nature in the city

No one will ever love this tree, forgotten among the trash and the vehicle fumes and the steel pillars of an elevated highway. Nevertheless, it stubbornly exists, reaching for the light.

#fotovorschlag #photography #streetphotography #urbannature #tree #treetuesday #urbanlandscape #nyc

#FotoVorschlag: #Natur in der Stadt // #Nature in the city

Zum #TreeTuesday ein bisschen Natur in #Brรผnn, im Park Moravskรฉ nรกmฤ›sti. Ich fand die Bepflanzung so schรถn, einfach nur wild und grรผn, statt Stiefmรผtterchen in mit dem Lineal abgemessenen Abstรคnden.
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For #ThickTrunkTuesday, here's a touch of nature in the heart of #Brno, Park Moravskรฉ nรกmฤ›sti. I loved the wild flowerbeds underneath the #trees; it was lush and green and untamed, not just pansies planted in painstakingly precise rows.


#ParkMoravskรฉNรกmฤ›sti #tree #Baum #Bรคume #treesOnTuesday #cityscape #urban #park

For #ThickTrunkTuesday:

Two-Leaved Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum dilatatum) and Redwood bark (that's the thick trunk part obviously๐Ÿ˜‰) along the Boy Scout Tree Trail at Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California (May 2025).

https://photos.alex-kunz.com/-/galleries/photo-archive/close-ups-small-scenes/-/medias/019db284-ba47-7286-9af4-f038668ea1d5

#IntimateLandscape #NaturePhotography #CloseUp #Redwood #NorCal #Plants #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #NationalParks #TreeTuesday #Trees #Nature #Herbs