Bench on a cloudy day

[alfredo]

Used a Yashinon 50mm 1.7 lens. It's heavy, but it returns good colors.

[GemDigger]

1. That would make a gorgeous puzzle. Beautiful picture.

[alfredo]

5. Great Idea. Thanks

[DarthDem]

2. Great Picture!

Nice job. I love benches.

[alfredo]

6. The ample rain this year has turned this area a green monster

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Glorious photo, alfredo! Thank you.

[alfredo]

7. Thanks

[Ohiogal]

4. Beautiful!

[alfredo]

8. The cloudy day made the colors deep. Thanks.

[Solly Mack]

9. Love the color contrast and the textures.

and the light.

[alfredo]

10. The arborist knew what they were doing.

My brother in law was among them building what is now the Kentucky Botanical gardens. When he passed away, they planted a Kentucky Coffee Tree in his honor. There isn’t such a thing as a beer tree, so the Kentucky Coffee Tree had to do.

[Solly Mack]

11. Heh

A Kentucky Coffee Tree would certainly honor me. I'm partial to oaks though.

[alfredo]

12. I'm a child of the eastern hard wood forest.

There is one tree I really love at the arboretum, the Honey Locust. It has a very obvious and effective form of self defense. It probably was a favorite of the giant ground sloth, or other large herbivores.


Honey locust honey is dark and rich.

[Solly Mack]

13. Wouldn't want to bump into that.

We have the hercules club around here. I've posted some photos of it before. Thorny nubs on the bark.

[alfredo]

14. Or hug it

I will have to look that up.

From Wikipedia

Along with the related Zanthoxylum americanum, it is sometimes called "toothache tree"[2][3] or "tingle tongue" because chewing on the leaves, bark, or twigs causes a tingling numbness of the mouth, tongue, teeth and gums. It was used for such medicinal purposes by both Native Americans and early settlers to treat toothache because of this.

[Solly Mack]

15. So now I know.

Still wouldn't climb one.

[alfredo]

16. Or hug it

[Solly Mack]

17. I might hug it in the same manner I hugged an aunt I couldn't stand.

[alfredo]

18. With oven gloves and Tongs?

BTW, the Shingles has cleared up, but there is some neuropathy.

[Solly Mack]

19. No, but I wished I had thought of that.

Good on the clearing up but neuropathy sucks mightily. Sorry about that.

I take a mild painkiller for mine.

[alfredo]

20. They gave me Codeine. Yuck!

[Solly Mack]

21. Only yucky going in

[alfredo]

22. I'm in a stumbling fog the next day.

The antibiotics kept me home bound during most of its run.

[Solly Mack]

23. Yeah. That can happen.

Never enjoyed that much.

I tend to stay home when I'm on antibiotics too.

[alfredo]

24. This is the bad part of growing old.

Still it’s not too bad. I can deal with it