Once in a blue moon....

Well captured Lori..........

I can almost hear the Wolves howling in the distance !!!

LOL....thanks ladies!

So beautiful! I never think about getting a photo of the moon.

great photo Lori :o))

Thanks ladies! Thanks D1...Next full moon, perhaps you could go inland a ways and get pics of moonlight on a saguaro!

I would need to go inland a long, long ways to get to a Saguaro cactus. lol! They are native to far southeastern California and Arizona. I did take a photo of some growing at the Salton Sea a few years back. That's even a two hour drive from where I live.

Here's the pics of the Saguaro cactus.

http://www.growsonyou.com/Delonix1/photos/saguaro

That is one plant that I would like to see with my own eyes! ...saguaros and the California Redwoods.

The Saguaro cactus is pretty spectacular...it looks unreal.

I've been through many redwood forests, at many times. They're incredible! Balboa Park has a little dying redwood forest. Most trees look like they'll be dead in 5 years or so. They don't like the dry climate here.

The Redwood forests of Central and Northern California (and into Oregon) receive tons and tons of rain! Many of the redwood forest receive 50 to 120 inches of rain a year.

That sounds reasonable ...the forest here is really stressed from a reduction in the water it is used to receiving every summer. when the trees break dormancy in the spring and start to draw sap from the roots to feed the expanding buds they draw hundreds of gallons every day and each night the flow stops or slows with the cool overnight temps...this is very obvious with the maples when tapping them in the spring. When I was out to the Canadian West many years ago the trees on the Vancouver Island were amazing to me. The maple leaves were huge compared to ours back East and it had to be from all the rain and warmer temps. There is also a lot of damage done to the trees here from freeze/thaw. I noticed a peculiar formation on the bark of some of the huge hardwoods...it is usually on the south or south east side of the tree. It looks like a zipper! it is a line in the bark that runs for as much as 15 or 20 ft of the height of the tree...found out that it is sun damage! When the tree is frozen in the winter time and there are not leaves to shelter the bark from the direct rays of the sun..the sun raises the temp of the sapwood it expands and dies from repeated freeze/thaw. Leaves that strange marking on the bark of the tree.