RHH's photos with the keyword: redwood

These are the needles of a Redwood. I would have expected such huge trees to have large needles and cones in proportion to the size of the tree, but both are tiny. Most of the foliage is far out of reach as well, but this was photographed on a younger tree in the Simpson-Reed Grove in jedediah Smith State Park.

This was one of the larger trees we saw in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park when we visited there last summer on trip through Oregon and northern California. The older trees often had these fascinating stumps and this was the best picture I was able to get of them. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/california-redwoods.html

We took our vacation this summer by way of driving down the Oregon coast into northern California where we saw the Redwoods at Jedediah Smith Redwoods Park. This photo shows the remains of one old tree, which still dwarfs my wife (I'll be posting other pictures of living trees as well). These trees, some of the oldest living creatures on the planet, leave one speechless and feeling very small and transitory. No picture or words can really describe them. While there we learned that the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervierns) is taller but not as large in diameter or bulk as the Giant Sequoia. It can grow to 380 feet, live for 2000 years, has fire- and insect-resistant bark that is twelve inches thick, and has a cone about the size of a large olive. The park we visited is part of a complex of parks jointly administered by the state of California and the National Park Service that reaches for more than fifty miles down the California coast and provides a sanctuary for these amazing and wonderful trees. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/08/california-...