#red larch

[bchangart]

“Mother, does the war still rage?” “The war ever rages, here.”

My favorite moment of the Acquisitions Incorporated: The “C” Team Season 1 finale. BEST SHOW!!! Can't wait for it to return.

[poly-carbon-based-lifeform]

I attempt to TKO the party in this episode.  Whoops.

[captain-safetypants]

this past weekend I learned about the tamarack tree, also known as the American Larch (and other names as well), which is a conifer, but is also deciduous, a fact that blew my mind. I was driving along much farther north than I generally stray, and the countryside was *covered* in these bright golden yellow spruce-tree-lookin’ things. I had never seen a yellow conifer before; I didn’t know they could exist!

At first there were a lot of oaks (browny red) and maples (orange and fire red) mixed in among the pines (green), tamaracks and birches (also golden yellow, slightly more lemony), and it looked like the landscape was on fire but in a good way. As I continued north, the maples and oaks became scarcer, until the land was a sea of gold, with some green and brown for contrast. It was so beautiful. I wanted to be a 19th century landscape painter just to try to capture the feeling of traveling a land made of jewels.

[zerohitpoints]

THE STONE BRIDGE

  ­∼ Stone Bridge was a bridge located along the River Dessarin, connecting the Red Larch and the Long Road to the High Forest. The bridge, which was also a temple to Moradin, was a single arch, about two miles in length and 400ft high, made of granite, roughly six paces wide, with no railings or barriers. The gigantic stone archway comfortably spans the widest spring flood of the Dessarin River.…

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