It's time for another Worldwide Photohunt!

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This week's prompt is "Wood."

You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.

Amy in MA

A peek through the woods to old wooden buildings, part of the Estonian Open Air Museum just outside of Tallinn.

Daniel Ost flower shop, Brussels.

A wooden boat on a canal in Venice.

I just love this tree in front of our favorite little bar, Roxy, in Jelsi.

This was a shot of the wine/cider room at Monticello. We all know the good stuff that comes from this 'wood'

Looking up at an Araucaria Angustifolia in the early morning near São Paulo de Fransico (Rio Grande du Sol) Brasil.
These are conifer trees that grow in excess of 40 meters tall in the elevated parts of southern Brasil. Their nuts (pinhão) are edible and taste a lot like pine-nuts. Very good when roasted.

This photo was taken while hiking near the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque in Provence.

Slow Travelers who know our family will appreciate the double meaning of this photo!

Kathy

I do have a nice shot of Muir Woods but many people probably have pictures of those great woods. More interesting perhaps is the wooden structure that houses an organic farmer's market in Plymouth, MA. This picture was taken at the end of the season last September.

And here is an old wine cask signed by a famous NY Yankee in Marsala, Sicily.

Well, call me biased, but I think my husband does some pretty interesting things with and about wood here in Vermont. The title of this piece is

'There was a young woman whose Bonnet
Came untied when Birds sat upon it;
But she said: 'I don't care!
All the Birds of the Air
Are welcome to sit on my Bonnet.'

Hmmm.. I seem to have forgotten the picture.

dories
Gloucester, Massachusetts

Rob's footprint on the teak deck of a ship and, with a little lemon on the side, please.

It's almost impossible to capture the feel of the old growth forests in NW Tasmania, but here goes ...

quote:

Originally posted by Dorothyk:
Hmmm.. I seem to have forgotten the picture.

It was worth waiting for ---it is beautiful!

Yesterday on a walk to Onelli Lake in the Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina.

Jill

This was taken from the Cumbres-Toltec train outside Chama, New Mexico in 2006. And yes, the sky at altitude really is that blue!! BJinNM

That's exquisite, Dorothy.

Wooden storefront in Sault, Provence. Delicious nougat and sweets.

Wisteria at Villa D'Este, Lake Como:

My world is pretty much in California these days, but yesterday, driving on I5, south to north, we saw that the miles and miles of nut orchards had totally burst into bloom - we think that these are almonds.

Tree Bark in Lenno, Lake Como, 2008
Not sure why I took the photo at the time, I just thought it was so interesting!

Sorry, but I couldn't help myself

My home. A hand-cut, hand-peeled, hand-constructed log house in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Montenegro is predominately an Eastern Orthodox country. Their Monasteries are their national treasures.
And arguably one of the most treasured is the Monastery in Piva. So important in the national concious, in fact, that when the Yougoslavian government announced plans for a hydro-electric dam on the Piva river that would have left the monastery at the bottom of a lake, a 13 year relocation project was undertaken.
Here is one of its beautifully decorated wooden alter chairs.

Look at all those colors, in the chair, and the detailwork. Now that is old world craftsmanship.
And old style, but new construction, I like your house DMae. So sturdy.
And while I am commenting, ColleenK, I really loved that carving. So calming ... so beautiful.

I love these Photohunts, thank you Amy and the other mods. There is so much of this life, and others, to see and share.

Fall color in the La Sal Mountians near Moab, Utah

Just a little bit of wood saving the beaches...

Close up of the Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree, also known as the Mindanao Gum, taken at the University of Hawaii campus on Oahu.

A door panel in Big Goose Pagoda Park, Xi'an, China

These are carbonized wood doors in the House of the Wooden Partition in Herculaneum in the Bay of Naples. They were buried in pyroclastic flow in Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD. they still roll on their brass tracks.

These two chessmasters are talking over their strategy...their next big move...while sitting in front of those huge wooden chess pieces in Forsyth Park, Savannah, GA.

Taken a week ago in the park.
Actually, this was a photo shoot with an under-dressed and very s-k-i-n-n-y model.

“Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.” ~ Henry Ford
Brenda

This photo was taken in La Silia in Calabria.

Old churchbell in Bianchi Italy

Bark of an ancient tree in The Forbidden City, Beijing

A walk in the woods - Cacapon, West Virginia

The toymaker's shop at the base of the Rialto Bridge in Venice.

Now that I have the hang of it, here's my contribution to this topic, dramatic wooden pilings on the beach south of St-Malo.

Two "wood"pictures, the first is a grove of trees above Sorento on a foggy morning, the other is a door in Rome

A sculpture at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh. It's made of several tons of newspaper so it's a temporary sculpture that's going to rot away, giving the paper back to the trees in the woods.