Studies have shown that plants have rudimentary feelings and sensations. There is the famous experiment where loud rock and roll caused house plants to grow away from the speakers while classical music made them thrive. This is a wonderful capture but I wonder what the other trees are feeling about their fallen neighbor.

HMM ! Maybe there is something about what wysiwig writes here :-) We had two huge poplars, which became way too large, so we desided to cut them down. They had severel "children" near by, that we desided to let be. Strange things happened when we cut down the large two trees. One should think the smaller trees would have more chances to grow, but they lost most of their leaves all three and the rest of the summer, they stood there with only leaves on the top. Was it fear or did the large trees still feed them untill we cut them down? Dont know. But I know, I like this shot very much and wish we had such old dry and beautiful trees on our beach.

super capture

super wonderful claase photo

Lovely capture of this trunk Tara very nice work!!

Very nice capture Tara, my wife would love a piece of that in our garden!

I like the capture and the title! Clive

Marks comment is so interesting...Mozart played in the classroom proved to enhance performance esp. in maths, whereas pop seemingly destroyed abilities already present. Anyway...super pic and a very clever title

It looks so sad - maybe these type of trees have a very shallow root system and a storm surge and the saltwater did the damage ? ... Just like washed up driftwood (a very large piece!) - but where is the beach ? Or is that volcanic type of beach soil/sand and stones you have there ? (I guess, we are very spoiled with our beautiful beaches) never-the-less an impressive scene, BB

Extraordinary still life. BB above doesn't know the beauties of an inland sound...Puget Sound in this case. Sandy ocean beaches and sandy inland beaches have many things in common but here we have very little surf...it is inland, many miles from the ocean as the crow flies. Here we have standing, surrounding timber on tens of thousands of acres. Trees at some point die, float downstream and become beach logs. You've created a wonderful atmosphere here. Fascinating comment by wysiwig above. You've got us all thinking and talking among ourselves. Well done.

What a wonderful and fresh new angle at your lovely Picnic Point! Amazing shot Hun!

Just as beautiful as the ones standing...

This nice shot makes me want to go to the beach. I love strolling along the beach and looking at the driftwood.

Very lovely capture!

A wonderful shot of the before and afterlife of trees...they may be a common sight here but I never get tired of them!

Woodsman, spare that tree! Lighting effects nice and stark in this fine foto.

The sea looks to have taken another victim. A lovely capture but it is such a shame to see a mighty tree fall.

Well spotted...!!!

Nice shot well seen.

Love those big trees washed. (I remember Olympic mountains beaches).

Great perspective and compartments. That many tribes vertically, and the big ones horizontally to the front.

Very lovely capture ! Great lighting on trunk ! My plants have grown so much and good with classical music and opera in the 10 years that I lived alone in the 80s.

Very nice capture. Wonderful shot.

Beautiful old tree, and a great photo of it, Tara! I love the light on this very spectacular!

Very nice! I'm fascinated by the subtle greening of moss growing on parts of the tree. Wonderful photo!

a place for a sit to watch and stare even to think what goes on in the mind wonderful capture, Tara May your comment sure made me smile and I so thank you, my friend makes a warm soul cherish have a wonderful weekend warm hugs and love, Linda Kaye

Cool shot!!

A beach has so many treasures--your foto shows how many different kinds there are. This is beautiful!!

Great find and photo!

i like this, interesting capture..:).