My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.
how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen
I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.
Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.
And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.
Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.
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no drawings for you today but I went for a walk in the park to get some pictures of the autumn leaves, rare morning sunlight makes for great leaf translucency studies! (John Leigh Park, Altrincham 2014)
can you even believe that this is a real place how did I get to live here
[Dunham Massey, Cheshire, UK.]
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YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Those are the countries. It will be drought-resistant species, mostly acacias. And this is a fucking brilliant idea you have no idea oh my Christ
This will create so many jobs and regenerate so many communities and aaaaaahhhhhhh
more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
it’s already happening, and already having positive effects. this is wonderful, why have i not heard of this before? i’m so happy!
Oh wow, this is fantastic!
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someone asked about colour and how it affects environments so time for more pissing about with my left hand :D
original is the top left (all one layer) I just mauled the hell of it in photoshop to demonstrate how the time and atmosphere of a picture can be completely changed with a colour shift- composition and content are super important too but don’t underestimate the power of your palette! it can work against you as well as for you!
sorry I’m not great at explanations straight after work (_ )_
warm up doodle
trying to mix in doing bg/style practice with my warm ups as well as the usual doodles so I get into the habit of doing them more often \o/
I’m trying to learn how to speed paint environments and I just came across this little beauty of a tutorial it’s so simple! I might do some more later and try and get more complicated but I liked this being as it was \o/
done in about fifteen minutes with my left hand (because I find I draw more natural looking trees that way)