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Trees! Glorious Trees!
As part of my manga research while designing my first foray into manga writing and art, I've started getting RSS from several popular manga sites, including TheRumicWorld. Inuyasha Manga Editor Annette Roman has a nice post today about trees in fantasy -- as spirits, religious focuses, sentients, demons, and just friends who protect your home and make it a better place to live. Below, I have links to the kinds of trees she talks about, as well as sequoias and redwoods. We probably need a baobab tree, too....
I have lived in the southwest too long -- I would NEVER cut down a tree unless it was sick and threatening to fall on my house. Too messy a tree? Tough. Get an Arborist to make it look its best and suck it up -- or don't buy that house. I might get rid of something small like a crepe myrtle, but never a TREE.
(You can threaten crepe myrtles and get them to cooperate, if necessary. I dislike white crepe myrtles, because they tend to bloom puny and their husks don't fall off, spoiling their display. So I warned a white crepe myrtle when I moved into a house once that it was on notice and a red crepe myrtle would look great there.
I swear -- within the WEEK it was covered, and I mean covered, in white blooms. Prettiest crepe myrtle I'd ever seen. So it got to live. We discovered it had a Hack berry growing inside it crowding it, so we cut that down (under power lines -- they would have topped it every five years, and unstable Hack berries are dangerous, as Texans know). I fed it crepe myrtle food, and guess what? It's a lilac crepe myrtle. Thus proving my point -- it wasn't a white crepe myrtle.)
Da trees:
Wonderboom (In 360!)
Dragon Tree
Guilty Chinese Scholartree
Major Oak
Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses (Despite the legend, don't try this ever!)
Giant Sequoia
Coastal Redwoods
Postscript: New Major Oak link 02/16/2010; some people were having trouble with that 360 site.
I have lived in the southwest too long -- I would NEVER cut down a tree unless it was sick and threatening to fall on my house. Too messy a tree? Tough. Get an Arborist to make it look its best and suck it up -- or don't buy that house. I might get rid of something small like a crepe myrtle, but never a TREE.
(You can threaten crepe myrtles and get them to cooperate, if necessary. I dislike white crepe myrtles, because they tend to bloom puny and their husks don't fall off, spoiling their display. So I warned a white crepe myrtle when I moved into a house once that it was on notice and a red crepe myrtle would look great there.
I swear -- within the WEEK it was covered, and I mean covered, in white blooms. Prettiest crepe myrtle I'd ever seen. So it got to live. We discovered it had a Hack berry growing inside it crowding it, so we cut that down (under power lines -- they would have topped it every five years, and unstable Hack berries are dangerous, as Texans know). I fed it crepe myrtle food, and guess what? It's a lilac crepe myrtle. Thus proving my point -- it wasn't a white crepe myrtle.)
Da trees:
Wonderboom (In 360!)
Dragon Tree
Guilty Chinese Scholartree
Major Oak
Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses (Despite the legend, don't try this ever!)
Giant Sequoia
Coastal Redwoods
Postscript: New Major Oak link 02/16/2010; some people were having trouble with that 360 site.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
Yog's Law -- Money Flows Toward the Writer....
Occasionally you do something gratis (like I'm letting BVC use a story non-exclusive in an anthology to help raise money for operating costs for the website.) But the story will become a for-pay download once it goes into the anthology. It will become pay for view.
'Cus I'm a pro. And money should flow toward the writer....