How Does A Spider Spin A Web Between Two Trees?

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If you look up in a tree, you might see a spider web that spans a distance of several feet or more. How is the spider able to reach between this distance? How do they do that?
LINK: The Presurfer

A Touch of Nature

Decorative Mango Wood Accents, $36 for a set of three

Hand carved from mango wood, these decorative wood balls come as a set of three. The mango wood used is sustainable, and mango trees are initially grown for their fruit, but once the trees reach a certain size and age, they stop bearing fruit. It is then that the trees can be cut down and used to create wood products. The removal of the old trees makes space for farmers to plant new mango trees. Eden Home Organic says that this not only means that none of the wood is wasted but it offers a supplementary income to mango wood farmers. LINK

BOB ROSS – WHY I DON’T PAINT PEOPLE

Tribute Song to Bob Ross and video shot in New York 2000 celebrating why Bob Ross never painted people. LINK: Youtube

The Dancing Forest

The Dancing Forest is an unusual natural wonder in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Its trees have grown into twisted shapes, as though they were dancing. More images at English Russia.

Link | Photo: Vaplakal.com, Via: Neatorama

"The Man Who Planted Trees"

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In 1987 this Canadian production won the Academy Award for the Best Animated Short Film, and in 1994 was voted by animation artists to be one of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time. Embedded above is part 2 of three parts, which demonstrates the style and representative content of the film. Those who are interested will of course want to view Part 1 and Part 3. This English version is narrated by Christopher Plummer. LINK: Neatorama

The Oldest Trees on the Planet

Wired has a gallery of twelve trees from all over the world that have outlived everything around them. The oldest started life at least 80,000 years ago, but may be much older! The tree shown is the Llangernyw Yew in Wales, which is only three to four thousand years old, but is one of the prettiest trees in the collection. Link, Via: Neatorama

Previously at Neatorama: 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World

Out Of The Kitchen And Into The Christmas Tree Lights

On every side of the street you can see the wonder of Christmas as people string the lights with their families and celebrate the holiday season. However, for some, just decorating some trees instead of a homestead is perfection.

(Via: Lauren), Via: The Presurfer

Happy Little Drop-and-Give-Me-50

What did Bob "Happy Little Trees" Ross do before becoming PBS's resident mellow hippie artist on The Joy of Painting? Would you believe, Air Force master sergeant? Turns out, the Ross we know is really a reaction against 20 years spent being "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work." LINK: Boingboing

Birth name Robert Norman Ross
Born October 29, 1942(1942-10-29)
Daytona Beach, Florida
Died July 4, 1995 (aged 52)
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Full biography at the Wikipedia Link.

WOOD CHOPPER FROM HELL HAS ARRIVED

From trees to toothpicks in 15 seconds. LINK: Youtube
Talking about logging machineries, take a look at this harvester that can cut, delimb, and cross cut logs in seconds! Link

(Note: this particular machine, built by AFM Harvester, seems to be operating in a tree farm, not an old growth forest). Link: Neatorama

The incredible trees of Socotra Islands, Yemen

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Dirty Trees

Click here to see a bigger version. LINK

The 30 Creepiest Trees on Earth

You may have thought Treebeard or the apple trees in The Wizard of Oz were creepy, but real trees can be pretty creepy, too! Environmental Graffiti has a collection of the strangest, scariest, and even funniest trees caught on camera. Link, Via: Neatorama

25 Seriously Twisted Trees: From Uncanny Urban Overgrowth to Awesome Arbosculpture

Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art. Properly pruned and cultivated they can be made into curious, compelling and useful shapes of all sorts. From tree furniture designs to unchecked acts of nature here are 25 examples of the amazing malleability of trees.

"Intro to Arborsculpture" LINK



Richard Reams of Arborsmith dot Com focuses more on the artistic side of arbosculpture, creating some meaningful shapes (such as piece signs) as well as whimsically abstract pieces of tree sculpture. Some of his projects (such as grown fence enclosures and tree furniture) do, however, still serve a purpose. LINK

Strange, Weird, Odd and Unique Trees

I posted another one similar to this. this one has some different ones included. LINK, Via: Flickr

Lemon Tree in Japan Bears Eleven Kinds of Fruit!

A 71-year-old farmer has found a unique solution to Japan's chronic shortage of space: grow 11 different kinds of fruit on a single tree! Manabu Fukushima of Onga, Fukuoka prefecture, combines natural horticultural skill, a lot of time and the kindness of neighbors to create one of the oddest trees you'll ever see: a very confused Lemon tree that bears ten other citrus fruits - and Fukushima isn't done yet!
At present, Fukushima's 30-year-old Lemon tree also bears distinctive Japanese citrus fruits like Dekopon, Hassaku Orange, Iyoyan, Amanatsu and Banpeiyu (a variety of Pummelo). LINK

Frozen Cherry Tree

These are frozen cherry trees in a place called Ceres which is 140km from Cape Town, South Africa. LINK, Via: Hemmy.net

World’s Most Unusual Christmas Trees

The upside of this upside-down 7-foot pre-lit Christmas tree is that you’ll have more room for presents underneath! This strange tree was originally designed for specialty stores to display ornaments while using as little floor space as possible.

It’s $600 and is currently sold out at Hammacher Schlemmer: LINK, Via: Neatorama

"Tree - Fish"

The rivulus is notorious for being the only fish that can naturally self-fertilize and is also known to breathe air for long periods of time. However, scientists accidentally discovered that this odd American fish can live in logs while breathing air for months at a time, a behavior they now call “logpacking” since many rivulas will pack together inside a single log. Link

"Cool Trees"

These are some of the coolest trees from around the world. The one pictured is called Chapel-Oak-Allouvill. There is a total of ten pictures. Via: ebaumsworld

"Nature Spirits/Tree Goddesses"

Figurative paper,
paper mache, handmade paper, paper pulp….. one of a kind sculpture by Rachael DiRenna