A Greener kind of Green (Earth Day!)

Hostas




Backwards pan while driving



New Wheat



Interstate 40, 1/8 at 70mph.









Mayflower AR, bottoms- flooded

As Spring gives way to Summer, the lighter greens of Sweetgum and varied Oaks will darken to match the deeper hues of the pine.

Oak/Juniper

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For the Earth is the Lord's,

and all the fullness therein.

(Somewhere in the Psalms)


All pictures (c) by Kirk Jordan, and taken in Central Arkansas between April 16-22, 2008


The hardest task for today's Mighty Work edition was editing down to a small selection. This has to be our greenest (and wettest) Spring ever, and I've been going plum crazy with virid delight.
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There is something about light pouring through a chloroplast, that makes you feel like you are looking at life itself... or the plant equivalent of blood.
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To be honest, it may be kind of stupid to post pictures of radiant green, because the experience on your monitor will never punch the eye with same kind of force.

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This kind of verdant delight is not without cost. For some Arkansas's flooding see:
http://governor.arkansas.gov/newsroom/gallery.php?do:showPhotoList=1&gallery_id=243
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The Mighty Work Project exists to affirm, everyday is Earth-is-the-Lord's Day.

And the theme is...? 4/14/08

Green.


All images April 7-13, 2008 Central Arkansas (c) by Kirk Jordan

pic one: Sweetgum in "Calico" green
Pic two: Elm
Pic three: Willow oak by night, ASA 3200, 4 seconds hand-held, with flash
Pics four and six: Unknown Oak with twist and shout zoom motion.
Pic five: Scarlet (?) Oak, covered in floral catkins.

The Mighty Works Project exists to thank God for chloroplasts.

House of Oak 4/5/07

On the Making of Oak trees (c) by Kirk Jordan


Today's send features three different species of Oak, which - on quick inspection, appear to be so very different from one another as to belong to very different tree families.

Trees in the Oak family tend to have certain shared qualities: floral Catkins (the wormy flower things), hard yellow-tan wood, dense bulky form (with notable exceptions), acorns, tough grey-brown bark etc. -- but they manifest an extremely wide variation in leaf shapes.

Pic one is of a willow oak, with thin willowy leaves.

Pics two and tree showcase emerging Scarlet-Oak, or possibly Pin-Oak leaves,

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Pics four and five feature the still tender leaves of a scrubby Post Oak (or Possibly a Bur Oak)


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For More on Oak IDs see:

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/pages/compare-oaks.htm

or for more on the forest in general:

http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/hard_tree_id.htm




The Mighty Works Project exists to assist you getting a lobotomy. Wait. Make that... The Mighty Works Project exists to make you a lay-botanist.