Once again, Steve Bumgardner does a great job creating Yosemite Nature Notes, Episode 11: Big Trees. Thank you for your hard work, Steve, I always look forward to your productions.

This dead tree first caught my eye a couple of years ago, and remains one of my favorite subjects in the remote Grove of the Patriarchs. This time, the sun was setting and a shadow crept up the truck as I made the capture.

This specimen, while no longer living, is still valuable as a part of a dendrochronology dating back 10,000 years. Bristlecone pines are among some of the oldest, non-clonal living things on this planet.

Twitter user @gewoozi Told me about the Korean Ju Mok trees, over 1000 years old. His friend PoDeki took this picture on Mount Duk You while trekking in January. Thank you, PoDeki & Gewoozi! This is beautiful!

Some of the bristlecone pines are over 4000 years old.

This confirms something I’d suspected for the last 5 years. US 6 does go all the way from P-town to Bishop. I may need to take this road back to RI some day, just to say I did.

Here’s to the cast and crew of King Richard’s Faire, opening this weekend in Carver, MA. I’m a long way from home, friends and neighbors.