Acorns & conkers
#oak
#horsechestnut
#trees
#nuts
#nature
#photography
#Scotland

Oak Leaves

Mixed media oak leaves with pen and watercolor.

Prints available here: https://2-lisa-neuman.pixels.com/featured/oak-leaves-lisa-neuman.html

#oak #fall #fallcolors #mixedmedia #buyintoart #fedigiftshop

This is the Kile Oak. It is the largest bur oak in the county. It is 5ft DBH. My first picture shows a paper lunch bag at the bottom so you can see kinda how big it is, but like many things the picture doesn't do it justice as seeing it in person.

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It grew from an acorn that sprouted some time around 1600CE. So it's older than this fascist bs country, state, and city by a fair amount. The flavor of the unprocessed acorns is fairly palatable. If you've ever eaten an acorn that isn't palatable you know.

We can speculate a lot but don't really know much about how bur oak came to be more palatable than other oaks. This particular one could be the great granddaughter of an oak the adena or hopewell bred for flavor, planted by any number of groups like the Natchez (probably a little to NE for them but Indigenous people did travel a lot) or some other Mississipian tribe, but more likely Miami or Shawnee. Also a bird might have planted it! In context there were still millions of passenger pigeons in the sky at the time, along with lots of other things that liked to carry acorns around. The palatability is probably a conscious design executed by skilled Indigenous people going back many, many generations, and the acorn may have just landed there. :)

Read more here: https://www.irvingtonhistory.org/visit/exhibits/kile-oak/

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Oak #Quercus #Macrocarpa #trees

A dead Coast Live Oak with many massive branches leans into a small grassy meadow, with some fall colored vegetation in the background. Photographed at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve in November 2013.

Vertical orientation photo — might need a click/tap to see as intended.

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#TreeTuesday #TreesOfMastodon #NaturePhotography #SanDiego #Oak #OakTree #FallColors

ICAO: A5EE51
Flt: SWA3703 #SouthwestAirlines #OAK-#LAS
First seen: 2023/09/03 22:35:45
Min Alt: 2032 ft AGL
Min Dist: 3.44 mi

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Jura Seven Wood 🥃😋 #whisky #Scotch #oak #SoMuchOak

ICAO: #A97076
Flt: #TIV707 #ThriveAviation #DAL-#OAK
First seen: 2023/08/31 20:40:06
Min Alt: 1400 ft MSL
Min Dist: 1.1 nm

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#Wooden #steps I built from old #oak and scrap construction wood for a guy I'm doing some casual work for. These are intended to fit against and existing platform that he intends to have a shack built on, at the top of his #garden, which is terraced and starts below his isolated #cottage and finished well above it. "Needs work..."

Random #oak #seedling. I get lots of native live oaks popping up all the time. They are quite weedy here.

ICAO: A6B94A
Flt: EJA532 #NetJets #OAK-#RAL
First seen: 2023/08/25 14:21:50
Min Alt: 4057 ft AGL
Min Dist: 9.86 mi

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The Port of Oakland has announced the Terminal Modernization and Development Project at Oakland Airport and asks for community feedback on the upcoming changes. Attend online or in person, send comments by email, or use the OAK website to submit questions and concerns.

https://alamedapost.com/news/get-involved-shape-the-future-of-oak/

#alameda #oak #oakland #OaklandAirport #PortOfOakland #PublicMeeting #TerminalModernizationAndDevelopmentProject

I am also taste testing chinquapin oaks this year, many of which also should be edible with no processing. Haven't found one yet, but it's still early for their acorns.

#oak #trees #food #nuts #climatechange #squirrelmode

ICAO: ABE475
Flt: SWA164 #SouthwestAirlines #PDX-#OAK
First seen: 2023/08/25 00:27:11
Min Alt: 2532 ft AGL
Min Dist: 9.85 mi

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I've been squirrel mode for weeks tasting bur oaks for the poor proles almanac bur oak contest. Link below.

Anyway, today I found some that I can eat without processing that taste good. I might describe them as peanut-ey, though not quite as sweet.

Like chestnuts and other nut trees, oaks have been historically and will continue to be an important food source for people in the future as climates shift.

Bur oaks are almost certainly a crop that was managed generationally for higher production and better flavor by Indigenous people of Turtle Island.

This contest is trying to find the best tasting and largest (not necessarily at the same time) fruits of that labor and move them north into new range to help in a changing climate, and sharing the best with community.

#oak #trees #acorn #climatechange

https://sites.google.com/view/ppasites/the-bur-oak-acorn-competition

Gammel Køgegård Rundhøj, a fine round #barrow with an ancient #oak #tree growing out of it. One of the surviving burial mounds along the road named Ølbyvej in Køge, #Sjælland #denmark #thicktrunktuesday #prehistoric #prehistory Lots more on our pages: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=53223

Old file cabinet
Knowing grin conceals all
Secrets lie within

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #FileCabinet #CardCatalog #File #Oak #Globe #LibraryCabinet #Cabinet #Library #Secrets #Anthropomorphic
August 22, 2023

Môj prvý vlastnoručne vyrobený nábytok 🙃

#wood #woodworking #bedside #oak #handmade #nocnystolik

ICAO: AAA9B6
Flt: SWA2953 #SouthwestAirlines #OAK-#SNA
First seen: 2023/08/18 19:26:01
Min Alt: 2182 ft AGL
Min Dist: 8.78 mi

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ICAO: A4F347
Flt: EJA418 #NetJets #OAK-#SFO
First seen: 2023/08/18 09:44:49
Min Alt: 57 ft AGL
Min Dist: 3.12 mi

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ICAO: A537B2
Flt: SWA3703 #SouthwestAirlines #OAK-#LAS
First seen: 2023/08/18 08:53:53
Min Alt: 3107 ft AGL
Min Dist: 8.72 mi

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