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AnneTheWriter

2/2🧵 The #MortonArboretum is located in #Lisle #Illinois, a far suburb of #Chicago. It was established in 1922 by Mr. Joy Morton, the founder of the #MortonSalt company. Morton's father was J. Sterling Morton, who founded #ArborDay in 1872.

The #Arboretum is comprised of over 1,700 acres of land. All of the trees and plants are carefully chosen and tended by expert staff.

With my heel spurs and arthritis, hiking is nearly impossible, so this was a lovely way to enjoy the woodlands and the many colors of the season.

mortonarb.org/about-arboretum/

Wide-shot image of a large light-brown grassy plain in the foreground, and a long thick line of trees in the distance, covering the horizon. Almost all of the trees have changed into their fall colors, so the trees are a variety of shades of brown, red, orange, yellow, and green.
Photo of a single-lane roadway heading into a wooded area. The image focuses on the trees and brush to the left of the road. Most of the trees here are tall and have thin trunks, with ample leaves of autumn yellow and orange-brown. Some plants are still green. Some of the trees are bent over the one-lane asphalt roadway, casting their shadows along the path.
Photo of a wooded area. The foreground is full of brown, yellow, and a few orange leaves covering the ground in a thick layer. Tall, thin trees fill the background, with a little of the blue sky and some bright sunshine breaking through their fall-colored leaves and high branches.
Photo of a wooded area. To the left is a thick base of a tree. In the foreground, the ground is covered with a thick layer of leaves in a variety of autumn colors, all shades of yellow and brown. Some green plants are still visible among the leaves. In the distance, a large number of thin tall trees stretch up to fill the beautiful blue sky behind them. A little less than half of the leaves on these trees are still green, the rest are like the ones on the ground.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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AnneTheWriter

1/2🧵 This past Friday afternoon was spent driving through one of several long routes in the #MortonArboretum in #Lisle, #Illinois. The fall colors and scenic tree varieties along the nine-mile route were beautiful, and my camera phone could not do them justice.

The two-head #sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist #OlgaZiemska. The heads were "created from reclaimed and pruned tree branches and other natural materials gathered from various locations throughout the Arboretum’s 1,700 acres.“
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Photo of a sculpture in the middle of a mowed grassy field, surrounded by woodlands in autumn colors. The sculpture is two face profiles facing one another, with the middle of each head cut out in an eyeball shape and a silver globe hung inside each eye shape... so that the two heads also look like eyes. The sculpture is "Of The Earth" by artist Olga Ziemska. It is located in Lisle, Illinois, a far suburb of Chicago. https://mortonarb.org/explore/activities/exhibitions/of-the-earth/
Photo of short tree brush and other plants along an asphalt roadside. Some are still green, but others are in vivid fall colors of red, orange, and yellow. At least some of the plants are called "Sumac."
Close-up photo of an oak leaf that has turned red for the season.
Photo of some wild plants in fall colors. The focal point of the image is a small oak tree whose leaves have turned red for the season. Also in the image are tall wild grasses, plus a few tall prominent trees, and others in the distance whose leaves have turned yellow and light brown.
#Autumn#Fall#AutumnLeaves
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@Blort very important issue. Saving mature trees is critical yet home owners towns and states cut down mature #trees that can otherwise regenerate when properly managed by #arborists. Not enough time and #education is focused on preserving mature trees which maintain a huge network of underground life and connectivity within the earth, surrounding plants and #wildlife. They are the lifeblood of our ecosystem. Walk among them and you feel Life itself. #SaveTheTrees #oaktrees #mapletrees

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Older #trees are able to accelerate their rates of absorbing planet-warming emissions, scientists at University of Birmingham found. A forest of mature #oaktrees was exposed to elevated levels of #carbondioxide for seven years and in response, the trees increased their production of #wood - locking in the #greenhousegas and preventing it from #warming the planet. It is estimated that globally a football field of primary #forest is lost every six seconds. #climatecrisis bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d7p0

BBC NewsMature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions Mature trees are able to increase their storage of greenhouse gases as levels rise, researchers find.
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