After nearly a month on the road, I am home from my travels for a while. If you have been following you know I have been in Northern California for the Godwit Days in Arcata, in Northern Florida for the Florida Birding and Photo Fest in St. Augustine, in Northern Ohio for The Biggest Week in American Birding in and around Oak Harbor (Magee Marsh, Ottawa NWR, Black Swamp Bird Observatory, etc.), and, this past weekend, in Southern New Jersey for the World Series of Birding in Cape May and the environs. While I have posted from each of these places, over the next few days (weeks?) I will be playing some catch up on images from my travels.

This, in honor of Tree Tuesday on Google+, is from Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California. I always, time allowing, take the scenic route on my drive from San Francisco to Arcata, along the Avenue of the Giants, through the redwood groves. This is a double trunk tree, and that is my Tilly Endurable hat sitting on a gall for scale.

I am awed and amazed on every visit to the redwoods. Inspired. Uplifted. Delighted. Stilled in some part of me that needs stilling.

And, for contrast, we can take a vertical view.

Canon SX40HS. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation.  1) 33mm equivalent field of view, f3.2 @ 1/30th @ ISO 400. 2) 140mm equivalent, f3.2 @ 1/30th @ ISO 800. 3) 24mm equivalent, f4 @ 1/50th @ ISO 200. 4) 24mm equivalent, f2.7 @ 1?100th @ ISO 200.

Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.