For #ThickTrunkTuesday I offer an unusual species. The first photo shows a large #Palmetto#Palm and two smaller specimens growing among #BaldCypress trees at Burden Museum & Gardens in #BatonRouge#Louisiana. The second shows the pond habit where these were growing. Some palms are visible on the shore. These are rather large and thick examples of Palmettos. I took these pictures Sunday while hiking on the trail system there.
> [Ternell Brown’s] attorneys wrote in the lawsuit that they are still learning “the full horror of what the street crimes unit did there. ... Even those who were not beaten at the torture warehouse, we now know, were still sexually humiliated.”
I thought I’d post something a little different for #ThickTrunkTuesday! This magnificent #bonsai is a #BaldCypress Tree (Taxodium distichum). This water-loving conifer is approximately enough the State Tree of #Louisiana. This miniature specimen was on exhibit at the Louisiana Bonsai Society Show at Independence Park Gardens in #BatonRouge in November 2016.
From Steve Caparotta: "Still 2 days to go, but June 2023 will go down as the hottest on record for Baton Rouge, with records dating back to 1892." #LAwx#BatonRouge
Anybody here ever listen to WBRH in Baton Rouge, LA?
The blues Legend, Tabby Thomas, used to host an amazing local Blues show there and send out dedications to people he met at blues shows over the weekend.
He would say, "This one goes out to you, you and you!"
His son, Chris Thomas King, played the blues singer at the Crossroads in O Brother Where Art Thou?
I come from the land of very good music and very good food.
For #ThickTrunkTuesday I wanted to share this enormous old #liveoak#tree that has its own space by the Baton Rouge Clinic on Perkins Road in #BatonRouge#Louisiana. When the Clinic moved to this location, they preserved the tree and set aside an appropriately sized fenced area to protect its root system. The tree is thriving and so is the Clinic. Proof that we can live in harmony with nature if we do so thoughtfully. This oak supports an impressive colony of Resurrection Fern as well. I took these photos last week, and you can see the new spring growth on the branches.