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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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All rights reserved, all wrongs avenged. Posted 6 February 2005, revised 27 June 2008.
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