This week’s CFFC topic is Leaves and Trees. Your trees can be live,, real or even Christmas style.Any leaf of any color will do too, as well as evergreen needles and pine cones.
This challenge both new and archived photos are allowed. The main purpose of this challenge is to create community and get to know each other through photography.
Featured Bloggers
I had a marvelous response from all of you on last week’s Water challenge. I want to say thank you to each of you for joining along in my challenge. Here are the featured bloggers for this week. Their posts really grabbed my attention. They are all worthy of a second or third look.
Current Challenge Series – Most Popular Topics of All time
- Flowers: Purple or Blue
- Sunset to Sunrise
- Water
- Leaves and Trees
- Catching People Unaware
- Columns and Vertical Lines
Next Challenge Series – All Mixed Up
- Bridges
- Urban Erosion (see Maarten Vromans)
- Patterns in Nature
- Stacks or Blocks
- Non Alive Animals – carvings, stuffing, lawn ornaments, painting
Please check out my Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge to check out more of what this challenge is about.
My entry for this week
I’ve put together a list of challenges and their hosts. So if you know a challenge host, please direct them to my blog. Feel free to contact me anytime. I hope everyone will be able to use my lists.
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Cee
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Fantastic images, Cee 👏 Love the close-up of the leaf & the tree that has multiple trunks 😃
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That tree is actually one tree and they are called octopus trees, it is some kind of spruce. 😀
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Perfect name for it 😃
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Awesome gallery! The tree with multiple branches is so inviting… as if with open arms! Here’s mine – https://myheart2heart.blog/2020/12/15/my-journey-from-fall-to-now/
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Here is my holiday style contribution: https://thisandthatthenextpart.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/cffc-leaves-trees/
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Love your holiday theme 😀
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https://wordpress.com/post/nynkblog.wordpress.com/3299
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Love that huge tree with the moss.. None like that in our neighborhood.
https://100countrytrek.com/2020/12/15/cffc-leaves-and-trees/
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Most of our are like that 😀
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Cee, your photos are gorgeous! I love the leaves and the big tree. This time I have chosen some pictures from this summer and some from this December. I hope You’ll like them. https://lifeisgreat0.blog/2020/12/15/cffc-leaves-and-trees/
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This “communal tree” (I don’t know what else to call it) is amazing. Great find. And a great close up of the pine cone.
I’ve stayed autumnal.
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That big tree is a Sitka spruce tree also known as octopus tree 😀
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That name makes perfect sense.
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Magnificent trees and leaves. Here’s mine
https://linsdoodles.wordpress.com/2020/12/15/cffc-leaves-and-trees/
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Lovely selection of Trees Cee 🙂
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Thanks Brian 😀
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Your trees are so gorgeous. I love the moss-covered one. How typically Oregon is that? The pine cone makes a great contrast against the green pine. (Is it pine or spruce or something else? I should know my evergreens better than I do.
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I am lousy at identifying 98% of the trees. So your guess is as good as mine, actually probably better 😀
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Vince had an app that identified plants by their leaves, but when we changed cellular service and got new phones, the app disappeared.
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Wonderful images and a great topic for he week. Thank you again for hosting. Here is the link to my contribution.
https://lifeinmyyears.com/2020/12/15/trees/
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Love that Christmas tree…looks so grand! Here is mine for this week. https://mywanderings.travel.blog/2020/12/16/looking-up-2/
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The first one is so nice! 🙂
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Thanks Lily 😀
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I like the textures on your trees!
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Trees do make for wonderful textures. Thanks 😀
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You will get two responses from us — from me and from Garry. Good thing we take a lot of pictures when we go out. These days, excursions are getting a bit rare! Plus, we have a big snowstorm on the way, so everything will be very white very soon. I love that strangely bent tree (right under the B&W Christmas tree). Do you know what it is? They definitely don’t grow around here.
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I liked both of your entries. I’m not getting out at all since I have Covid which is basically since the fires. Good thing I have a great archive systems to my photos.
I have no clue what that tree is, but they are all over here in Oregon.
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I love all these trees, the one with the unusual trunk and the mossy one are my favourites this week.
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They are my favorites too! Thanks Vanda 😀
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I decided to keep it simple and go with a couple of photos taken on my walks around the neighborhood recently:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2020/12/16/autumn-leaves-in-the-snow/
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Wonderful trees and close ups Cee! Our contribution (featuring bits of trees and leaves) for this week’s lovely challenge is here: https://whippetwisdom.com/2020/12/16/wordless-wednesday-early-recharge/
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Lovely Collection
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Thanks for commenting Dawn 😀
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Hello again Cee, we have some snowy trees for our nature contribution this week: https://tranature.com/2020/12/16/haiku-all-souls-night/
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This article seems to explain it, sort of. They are called octopus trees, but they don’t grow that way accidentally. They are OLD trees and were forced into that bending my the Tillamook Natives. So there are a lot of “bent trees,” and not all are the same kind of tree.
https://gotillamook.com/news/the-eerie-origin-of-the-octopus-tree/
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The Sitka spruce really do have that many branches though. I’ve been to see the Tillamook octopus tree a lot. This one is in Canby.
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Time got away from me and I am late! But I did go seasonal.
https://junkboattravels.blogspot.com/2020/12/leaves-and-trees.html
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Here’s mine on trees and leaves
https://mindfills.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/frosty-a-haiku/
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Great selection of trees. Love the leaves in the top one.
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Thanks Maria 😀
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Beautiful Irish trees
https://nynkblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/into-the-woods/
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https://weirdsareword.wordpress.com/2020/12/17/cffc-leaves-and-trees-trees-i-have-got-of-these/
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Cee, really like your new look … but I think I have already told you that. Again, great gallery …. I’m sure I will be able to put something together tomorrow. Have a lovely weekend.
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Thanks. So glad you like my new theme. 😀
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Hard not to like your galleries. *smile
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My favorites are the tree trunks, they are marvelous! Especially the first one.
Here are my pictures of mostly leaves: https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-leaves-and-trees/
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I don’t know the name of the tree click i the last photo.Beautiful!
Thank you
My contribution
https://philosophyvia.photos/2020/12/21/cffc-leaves-trees/
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Hello See, here are my pictures “leaves and trees”
https://thomas-bedel.de/wordpress/blog/cffc-leaves-and-trees/
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https://appeltjie.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/under-the-tree/
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