California Redwoods

I couldn't think of a better way to honor the Blipfoto founder,  Joe Tree than with a California Redwood tree. Next to the numerous varieties of oak trees that thrive here, redwoods are probably the most common. In Berkeley, where houses were large and lots small it was a common sight to see  gigantic redwoods growing in people's garden. The story, probably apocryphal, goes that a bank was giving redwood burls to people who opened accounts. They took them home, stuck them in the ground and before they knew it had a massive, messy, dark tree towering over their house.

Redwood trees are best enjoyed in parks and open spaces where they create a soft carpet of densely packed needles on the ground and deep shade overhead. They are California's sentinels.

I have sung the praises of Blipfoto many times, but it must be said that Joe Tree's vision has become a community of creative, kind and yes, excellent people who gather, support each other and rest in the shade of  capturing life in a daily photo and sharing it with each other.