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There are plenty of redwoods in various areas around San Francisco. However, they don't reach the incredible size that the redwoods do up in the Redwood National Park. Up there, the conditions are right for redwoods to dominate the ecosystem and grow to incredible heights. Wandering among the giants conjured up feelings of being tiny creatures in a world full of beings too large to notice us. It's the sort of forest that leads to the creation of rich fairytales like Miyazake's Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke.
Perspective on a fallen tree:
Redwoods have numerous ways of reproducing -- their genetic material can restart a complete tree from a root or piece of burl. It's an interesting evolutionary trick to manage numerous methods of asexual reproduction in a way that prevents disorganized and runaway growth.
This tree, on the other hand, is ready to reproduce sexually. Or maybe I'm just anthropomorphizing. Why do I keep finding cock-trees?
On a completely different note, there were some incredibly cheesy roadside attractions mixed in with the redwood trees. Here's a bright idea -- combine a gas station and a casino! Wheeee!
There was also this place, which had plenty of kitsch and an anatomically correct blue ox to keep Paul Bunyan company.
All the redwood pics on Flickr!
Perspective on a fallen tree:
Redwoods have numerous ways of reproducing -- their genetic material can restart a complete tree from a root or piece of burl. It's an interesting evolutionary trick to manage numerous methods of asexual reproduction in a way that prevents disorganized and runaway growth.
This tree, on the other hand, is ready to reproduce sexually. Or maybe I'm just anthropomorphizing. Why do I keep finding cock-trees?
On a completely different note, there were some incredibly cheesy roadside attractions mixed in with the redwood trees. Here's a bright idea -- combine a gas station and a casino! Wheeee!
There was also this place, which had plenty of kitsch and an anatomically correct blue ox to keep Paul Bunyan company.
All the redwood pics on Flickr!
