Roots and Trunks Photo Gallery by Ruth Moorhead at pbase.com

Roots and Trunks

In the U.S.A.'s Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and other ranges in this time of warming climate, as well as in coastal old-growth forests that have been logged, we see many hundreds of uprooted, fallen trees alongside our hiking trails. Sometimes it's beetle-kill; sometimes it's fire; sometimes snow or rain has softened the ground enough to withdraw support; sometimes it's wind that brings them down. Once down, the trunks are more ephemeral than the roots, so over time, we are left with fantastic shapes reaching, dancing, some still holding the rocks that sheltered the seed that started the tree. Sometimes the foliage has died, but the tree is not yet prostrate, or sometimes the tree has been cut and carried away, leaving the stump and solidly embedded roots. This gallery is to honor all of that.












Exposed Aspen Roots


























Faltering Baby Triceratops?



















Pinyon Pine and its Roots

			Cavorting Dragonlet
	Stump Masquerading as Mushroom	Log Unzipping	Sawdust, from Insects
Biggest Stump Collection I'd Ever Seen













			Limber Pine







	Aspen Sculpture






			The Griffin of Yachats
	The Giant Sitka Spruce






			Levitating Trunk



	Maple Buds Waiting
			Roots in a Tangle


		Long-ago Beaver Work	A Beaver's Been Here
		Monterey Cypress	Directing Traffic
			A Wound Trying to Heal
	Monterey Cypress
Spruce in Aspens		Texas madrone, Arbutus xalapensis
Cupressus arizonica, Arizona Cypress		Aged Aspen Bark
			Roots of a Tracy Hawthorn

		Hand Stacking Game
				Rolling Dragon

				Let Me Pluck YOU, My Pretty


				A Young Pine, Denuded

			Manza�ita and Granite
Beseeching Sentinel			Piercing the Sky	Mountain-Mahogany Sculpture
Root Sculpture	Branches Dance on Fallen Pine	Tarn Pond Log	Remains of a Toppled Tree	Toppled Mother Shelters Young
Cavorting Dragon		A Log of Exquisite Lines
Wilderness Trail Sculpture
Reaching Roots
				An Eon's Morning Stretch





	Even a dead manzanita is a beauty!		Limber Pine...Well, it WAS
Sculpture at Gem Lake

Almost an Owl?



		Ants incorporated the stump






Hole in a Root	Enmeshed

			But They're Such NICE Rocks!

comment

Jimbo		24-Jun-2020 22:28
Artistic, fill the frame study of your subject. Thanks for sharing.

awgrubb		19-Jun-2020 13:56
I love the theme of your gallery, Ruth. Awesome work!

Gill Kopy		04-Jul-2019 03:09
What a wonderful gallery - wish I could have some of these pieces in my garden !! V

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