what's this lovely tree? (this one's in oklahoma and was loaded with singing cicadas - even my screeching fiddle didn't interrupt them). scroll down for foliage close-ups. http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/temporary/id/id.html
and what might have caused this damage? this was on the gulf near port arthur, tx. sorry the picture didn't turn out very good. the damaged area was along the highway about twice the distance of what i could get in the viewfinder. branches ripped off, not cut - lots of large wood chips strewn along the highway shoulder. somebody driving a bus fall asleep at the wheel? hurricane winds performing strange take-outs, leaving everything else unharmed like tornados sometimes do? tazmanian devil attack? something simpler that isn't coming to mind for me but obvious to somebody else?
http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/temporary/id/damage.jpg
and what might have caused this damage? this was on the gulf near port arthur, tx. sorry the picture didn't turn out very good. the damaged area was along the highway about twice the distance of what i could get in the viewfinder. branches ripped off, not cut - lots of large wood chips strewn along the highway shoulder. somebody driving a bus fall asleep at the wheel? hurricane winds performing strange take-outs, leaving everything else unharmed like tornados sometimes do? tazmanian devil attack? something simpler that isn't coming to mind for me but obvious to somebody else?
http://www.missouri.edu/~quinnl/temporary/id/damage.jpg