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This was an incredibly beautiful nurse stump I found on Alder Ridge at Oxbow Regional Park in Oregon (it's near the flight path for Portland International Airport, hence the plane sounds near the end.) This is likely an old western red cedar (Thuja plicata) stump, hollowed out by decay and hosting a wide variety of mosses, lichens, fungi and other living beings. It was probably a good four feet in diameter at the base, perhaps a little larger, and while large portions of it have long since returned to the soil and the nutrient cycle, this ancient tree continues to feed the forest.
Hans Sumpf Co. USA, c. 1970,
Scratch pot with serpentine weeping Blue Atlas cedar bonsai,
Glazed stoneware, Blue Atlas cedar, soil,
68 h × 102 w × 34 d in (173 × 259 × 86 cm)
Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943), Cedar Tree, Coombe Bank, 1913. Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm.
Aug 2025, cedar tree
Cedar (Cedrus sp) 1750-1753.
Coloured engraving after Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770).
Wellcome Collection.
A cedar tree that is said to be 1000 years old.
Photographer: Akitoshi Nakashima
International Photography Awards™