Look - no trees!

[Big feller]

If anyone needs a break from sawing I have just the place. Check out the pictures. Mile after mile of green grass and not a tree in sight.

Sheep were introduced into the Shetland Islands about 500 years ago and ate all new growth. Since then the old trees have gone. I found about quarter of an acre of trees in a fenced off area. Apart from a very few in walled off gardens that's it!

It's a strange place but has a great variety of wildlife - mainly seabirds but also otters, seals, orcas etc. Friendly locals too.

Big feller.

 

[computeruser]

Sure are right - no tree cutting to be done there! Grass cutting, on the other hand...

 

[Big feller]

No machinery needed for grass cutting either - just add lambs and wait till they are big enough for the table.

The only down side is that you have to mind where you tread...

 

[Kenskip1]

No Trees

Could this be where tatonka are suppose to flurish? (Buffalo) to the slower members of the group. Looks like some great hay country for cattle, deer. It is a great picture all in all.

 

[TwoTurboVolvos]

Beautiful country!
Ron

 

[t_andersen]

Same goes for the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Very, very beatiful!

 

[spacemule]

Could this be where tatonka are suppose to flurish? (Buffalo) to the slower members of the group. Looks like some great hay country for cattle, deer. It is a great picture all in all.

I see someone watched Dances with Wolves.

 

[wagonwheeler]

Amazing...but I'd have to plant a tree, if nothing else for scale.

I'm so nearsighted from living in South Georgia expanses like that pull my eyeballs out of socket... at least the right eye...

Chaser

 

[Kenskip1]

Tatonka

Spacemule, Yes this is one of my all time favorite Kevin Costner's movies next to Robinhood.Excellant moral values.No profanity. I have it on DVD and VCR.

 

[Rotax Robert]

No Trees?....thats because I was already there a few years back.

Rotax

 

[Dan Forsh]

Shetland.... the only place that Mel Gibson's braveheart accent sounds authentic.

I have an auntie from Shetland, Lerwick I think.

 

[Lawn Masters]

No Trees?....thats because I was already there a few years back.

Rotax

that expalins the grass growin so good. its the sawdust on the ground fertilizing the grass.