Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees


Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Nancy R. Hugo (Author), Robert Llewellyn (Photographer). Have you ever ever seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The rising leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? When you take a look at a tree up close, you begin to understand timber in a complete new way. Seeing Bushes invitations readers to watch timber with the care and sensitivity that birdwatchers watch birds. Focusing on 10 widespread timber of North America, Nancy Ross Hugo highlights the rewards of tree viewing and describes a few of the most visually interesting leaves, flowers, fruits, buds, leaf scars, twigs, and bark of acquainted trees. Using software program developed for work with microscopes, Robert Llewellyn created extremely sharp shut-up photographs of the tree element by stitching collectively 8 to 45 photos of every topic-each shot at a different focal point. The combination of these lavish images with Nancy Ross Hugo’s writing makes every page come alive with the great thing about the rising process. The consequence is a beautiful journey into the life cycle of trees.


Featured trees embrace the American Beech, Ginkgo, Purple Maple, Southern Magnolia, Tulip Poplar, White Oak, White Pine, American Sycamore, Black Walnut and Eastern Purple Cedar.

Wanting by this e book amazed me about how little I had observed about some of my favourite trees. I'm trying forward to the winter time after I can use the images of the buds to follow my winter identification of timber and of course to subsequent spring to seize the blooms when they first emerge. Nancy is right if you mentions you will see timber with different eyes after studying this book.

This e book has some beautiful images-allowing you to see timber in a distinct light. The writer's enthusiasm infuses each web page-and may be very catching. Great info abound throughout the e book-including that a research confirmed that bluejays can plant acorns two miles away from the parent tree. And that trees with completely different sexes rely upon wind to pollinate. Nice work!!

This e book has it all for me. It is funny and charming. It is intellectually difficult and warm. The photographs are beautiful in every respect. The color is gorgeous. I have been stimulated to pursue plant knowledge that I have by no means been serious about before. Thanks for the great present, Hugo and Llewellyn. 
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees 
Nancy R. Hugo (Author), Robert Llewellyn (Photographer)
245 pages
Timber Press (August 16, 2011)

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