It would have been better (and correct) if I had used this as the lead (and final) photo in this morning's post.
Had I been paying attention, I could have figured out that I had the third and forth iterations backwards in this morning’s California juniper post (if you don’t like humiliation, be careful what you say and be doubly careful what you write. Especially on the internet).
Michael Andrews just emailed me to gently help clear things up (and to mention that the tree is ‘huge’). Though the tree does belong to Mauro Stemberger, Michael recently worked on it at a Juniper intensive workshop in L.A. Anyway, my apologies to Mauro, Michael and everyone else for being so dense in the face of the obvious.
Having said all this, I still prefer the more sparse look in the ‘guy wire’ photo, even though it’s not the last in the sequence. Though no matter which version I prefer, both are great and the tree is simply magnificent.
The guy wire stage. The third of four photos in the series. You can find all four photos in the series (though out of sequence) in yesterday's post.
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