Hiking, backpacking, and exploring Michigan... all while doing math.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Trees
One of my favorite pine groves up near Quincy, at sunset.
There's no particular story to go along with these. It feels like a stereotypical "wide angle looking up in a grove of tall trees," but I like the added color from the sunset.
I have heard the sunset song of the birches, A white melody in the silence, I have seen a quarrel of the pines. At nightfall The little grasses have rushed by me With the wind men. These things have I lived," quoth the maniac, "Possessing only eyes and ears. But you -- You don green spectacles before you look at roses."
(Stephen Crane)
(You could totally frame it and hang it in your hobbit home - or castle. Whatever you decide;-))
I think I know those trees. Along the old Q&TL right of way, just before the Ripley Ski hill if I'm correct. There should of been what looked like a path down the hill through the middle of the narrow ridge on which the trees were planted. I believe it was where the old Franklin (or Pewabic I suppose) tramway use to run down the hill to the mill at the current Quincy Smelter site. Loved walking down trough those things...
Of course these could be a completely different set of red pines. In that case, disregard everything I just said.
Yup, these are one of those stands of red pines along the Q&TL trail. I think that there are two stands, this is the one closer to the road.
I also noticed that path you mention, though. I'd never thought that it might be a tram road, but that makes a lot of sense. The trees are planted so neatly that they must have been planted on purpose -- I wonder why?
I asked around a bit at the Q&TL presentation on Saturday, and several people believe that these stands of trees were planted by the CCC during the New Deal era.
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I have heard the sunset song of the birches,
A white melody in the silence,
I have seen a quarrel of the pines.
At nightfall
The little grasses have rushed by me
With the wind men.
These things have I lived," quoth the maniac,
"Possessing only eyes and ears.
But you --
You don green spectacles before you look at roses."
(Stephen Crane)
(You could totally frame it and hang it in your hobbit home - or castle. Whatever you decide;-))
I think I know those trees. Along the old Q&TL right of way, just before the Ripley Ski hill if I'm correct. There should of been what looked like a path down the hill through the middle of the narrow ridge on which the trees were planted. I believe it was where the old Franklin (or Pewabic I suppose) tramway use to run down the hill to the mill at the current Quincy Smelter site. Loved walking down trough those things...
Of course these could be a completely different set of red pines. In that case, disregard everything I just said.
Yup, these are one of those stands of red pines along the Q&TL trail. I think that there are two stands, this is the one closer to the road.
I also noticed that path you mention, though. I'd never thought that it might be a tram road, but that makes a lot of sense. The trees are planted so neatly that they must have been planted on purpose -- I wonder why?
I asked around a bit at the Q&TL presentation on Saturday, and several people believe that these stands of trees were planted by the CCC during the New Deal era.
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