Photographs A picture of my daughter and her husband

[stovebolts]

Looks like they were hiking by a huge sequoia trees in the North-West, someplace...

Blessings.

Looks like a rotted bull pine to me, but it might be Tamarak lol

Kathi
I'm a native Spokanite transplanted to Michigan about 17 years ago. Send us some of that weather! For the life of me, my wife doesn't understand why I have no affinity toward pine trees lol!

Oh, good looking couple! I love Multnomah falls!

 

[jasoncran]

pine trees are of the pits of hell and so is the evergreen.

 

[Kathi]

pine trees are of the pits of hell and so is the evergreen.

Why?

 

[jasoncran]

Why?

the pine needles are annoying from a pine tree. an evergreen when it is in a wind storm will loose branches. I have been hit by those in the head.

 

[Kathi]

the pine needles are annoying from a pine tree. an evergreen when it is in a wind storm will loose branches. I have been hit by those in the head.

Yes, I agree.There are a ton of them around my house.We have had a couple of wind storms this winter.You should see my yard

 

[jasoncran]

anyway beautiful pic and as I have said I have lived in Washington eons ago.

 

[farouk]

Yes, I agree.There are a ton of them around my house.We have had a couple of wind storms this winter.You should see my yard

Our winter up here seems almost to have been one long extended storm....power outages because of trees falling...

Blessings.

 

[Kathi]

We have only had one power outage that lasted 1/2 an hour.Thank God

 

[farouk]

We have only had one power outage that lasted 1/2 an hour.Thank God

You did comparatively well...

Up here it lasted for days on end. Even in the past day or so the lights have been flickering....

 

[Kathi]

You did comparatively well...

Up here it lasted for days on end. Even in the past day or so the lights have been flickering....

Do you have underground utilities?

 

[farouk]

Do you have underground utilities?

Our hydro (electricity) is above ground; trees falling....

 

[Kathi]

Our utilities are underground.Ofcourse their is the transformer somewhere but we have not had a problem.

 

[farouk]

Our utilities are underground.Ofcourse their is the transformer somewhere but we have not had a problem.

Canada is probably too big a place for putting all the electricity cables underground to be affordable...

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

Our utilities are underground.Ofcourse their is the transformer somewhere but we have not had a problem.

Canada is probably too big a place for putting all the electricity cables underground to be affordable...

Blessings.

uhm, its never cheap, but florida has been trying to do that. they don't bury the large power lines.they must be above ground. that doesn't negate problems. they erode as well and also have bypasses in them.

 

[farouk]

uhm, its never cheap, but florida has been trying to do that. they don't bury the large power lines.they must be above ground. that doesn't negate problems. they erode as well and also have bypasses in them.

In places such as cities in England where it's underground, whenever something goes wrong they have to dig them up and fix them and it's hugely expensive and disruptive. (But, then, it's guaranteed work for the diggers...)

 

[jasoncran]

In places such as cities in England where it's underground, whenever something goes wrong they have to dig them up and fix them and it's hugely expensive and disruptive. (But, then, it's guaranteed work for the diggers...)

they do it here but its only 18" inches in the ground. they also can remove the wiring without digging.