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The Trees of Mont Tendre


Mont Tendre -- indeed, most of the Swiss Jura -- indeed, most of Switzerland -- is a treasure house for people who like photographs of dead and dying trees. That's nearly always a sad thing, and it's been reported that the Swiss authorities are taking vigorous steps to correct that situation throughout the country. Nonetheless, dead and diseased trees can be quite beautiful in context.

15 May 2005, along the top ridge southwest of the summer of Mont Tendre

Mont Tendre, 20 May 2005

The Valley of Dead Trees, coming up from Les Rochettes to the south

That's enough dead trees for the moment.

The hut in the rocks of Les Rochettes, south part of Mont Tendre, 2004

August 2006


But now, a few more dead trees, mid-August 2006

Now, some of the same trees on a grey day in early June 2008

Dead grey trees against a dead grey sky

Joe testing dead trees' deadness. Mont Tendre is up on the left.

 


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