The View From My Stamp Room Window

The Urban Landscape since the last time I showed winter and a Grizzly Bear.

This is a city trail that I often walk on a nice morning. It is close to home and starts in a meadow that once had two houses and a horse pasture. Nothing left now but the trail head.







From there, the trail runs to a split where one part continues to a large Off Leash area and the other runs uphill to the University Campus.







The whole area had been logged in the 1950's and the trail roughly follows the route of old roads accessing where a portable sawmill had been set up. You can find lots of evidence of this as you walk. The rise in elevation between trailhead and University is about 140 m., according to Google Earth. A short ways up you can look back toward residential and the steam rising from one of our pulp mills on the Fraser River. From the University looking in the same direction (east) you can see the MacGregor Range which eventually gives way to the Rockies.








As you continue, the growth becomes quite lush. Native climax species run heavily to white spruce and fir (Balsam and Interior Douglas) but they are rather localized because this very specific small area is a lot wetter than the general locale. Outside the river valleys it is much drier and lodgepole pine dominates. This area was never replanted so all growth is natural and you still have many of the first trees to fill in - big old poplars. The one in the picture is most likely about 1.5 m (4-5 feet) in diameter but I couldn't get close to measure. The undergrowth runs to a thick carpet of Devil's Club. Nice to look at but the stems and underside of the leaves are thick with spines and those plants are anywhere from 1 to 2 meters in height and the leaves are mostly 2 to 3 times the size of my hand.

This is the view from my window, except that something got in the way...



Well, I think the window is somewhere behind that. I'm not sure which section of the wall, or even which wall, had the window. I guess I have to be able to see the window before I can see out the window...

k

Are they all stamp binders khj?? Wow! I'm still trying to fill the two I got! lol
Also that view of the forest is beautiful backroads,Very impressive!

Yes they are. That's the section of bookshelf that I keep things I'm actively working on. The rest of the bookshelf and the other bookshelves are mostly blocked by boxes containing...

k

I see you've been very busy in the stamp arena eh? man I would hope to just have half as many some day!

Don't worry, you will. You won't have a choice. Your userid proves you are hopelessly addicted.

It's true. well, off to Declampe for me! lol

Beautiful views! Digital photos of my environment to show the SCF group are now on my "to do" list.

Great pic kirks.! There's a lot of scenic territory in western N.C. and SW Virginia.

Absolutely beautiful Kirk.

That's a stunning pic Kirk. Beautiful.
Looks unspoiled by human hands.

Amazing how the trees' roots find enough earth
on those rocky slopes.
What type of trees are they? Maple perhaps?

Here is my house!

Kirk, Southpaw, and myself are all blessed to live in beautiful Western NC. Not only is it great nature-centric living, but our local stamp club (Asheville) just hit 90 members; largest number of members since 1937.
Don

I see in Kirk's profile that he lives in Webster.
Wikipedia states that the pop was 486 (2000 census)
down to 386 (2010 census) Now?
My kind of town.

I live in Newmarket Ontario.
When we moved here in 1996 the town had 57,000 people
Now the signs say 86,000 but it's probably closer to 100K.

It used to be a nice quiet town.

I would move to the Cashiers/Highlands area in a heart beat; if I could talk my wife into it (Yea, I've tried). Visited there several times and really like it. Will have to live with visiting there when we can---stuck in middle Tennessee looking out the window at my neighbor's house.