Vintage Tamarack

Hello everyone! Good to be back.

Today I'm sharing with you some of my Pacific Northwest beauty. This first image is of a tamarack tree. A few years ago I was traveling across the Cascade Mountains to eastern Washington in the fall and noticed that an entire forest was an orange color. The usually dark green fir trees looked as though they were dying. Then I asked my dad about it and he told me that those trees weren't the usual fir trees of our forest but tamarack trees. I had never heard of tamaracks but when traveling across the mountains and from a distance they certainly looked like all of the other fir trees or Christmas trees.

The tamarack are mostly native to Canada and their name is the Algonquian word meaning "wood used for snowshoes". A deciduous tree with very tough but flexible wood used for making snowshoes and other items where toughness was necessary. Tamaracks are also grown as ornamental trees and in bonsai in cold climates.