If it's Tuesday, it must be..... .... ..... .......Tree Tuesday!

I asked Thor for a word that starts with T, and he said "Tree." (Actually he said "thing" first, but I told him I needed a word that starts with the "t" sound not the "th"...)

So it's Tree Tuesday. Which means I will be posting photos of Trees. (It could be worse...he could have said "telephone poles" and that really could be profoundly boring)...

So without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen -- May I present, the Tree!

I use trees to frame stuff sometimes...It makes the photo more interesting, and it's easy.

Trees in the monsoon rains.

Trees in the way of a decent sunset...

Close up of a dead Joshua Tree...or a tree that saw us coming and decided to play dead.

Minnesota has real trees. Not like these stunted mesquites and unnatural unnative palms.

Another dead tree. Arizona is really hard on trees, apparently...

Palm tree, up close.

Trees can be really fun...here is Mark on a zip line in the tree tops in Ketchikan, Alaska (I looked for a photo of me on the zip line, Mark, but I seem to have misplaced them...they are in the external hard drive but not categorized and sorted on Picasa.) That tiny little red speck -- follow the lines back -- is Mark.


And the Dungenes Spit, on Washington's coast, has tons of driftwood. More dead trees. Zach says this photo of him looks like one of those teen runaway public service announcements.