Dying trees

No comments necessary.
I'm finally back and am just filling in the gaps with photos actually taken on the date.

This is a photo of just one of the hemlocks that are dying in the Blue Ridge Mountains from the hemlock woolly adelgid infestation.

[Susan]

Nice layers and shot. Such a shame to see the Hemlocks suffering and losing the battle.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely capture and love the blue tones

[Jane Anderson]

I've not heard of this infestation, but we have a similar circumstance here, and it's complicated. We have salt cedar, an invasive species, that sucks too much water from the rivers. Now there is an invasive beetle that is killing them, but animals have adapted to the salt cedar and so their habitats are being disrupted.

[Jane Anderson]

Kathy, bless your heart for commenting on all of my photos today! What a wonderful friend you are.

[Kathy]

@cejaanderson You're welcome.

[Tom]

Beautiful layers

[Barb Tatum]

This does have nice layers

[Lisa Poland]

Fabulous shot. Too bad the trees are dying.

[Pyrrhula]

A great view and a beautiful capture of it. Love the/you mountains .

[Marilyn]

Super view..apart from the dying tree of course.

[Kathy]

@susanalena @ziggy77 (Jo they call these mountains the Blue Ridge Mtns for this reasons) @tosee @barbtatum @homeschoolmom @pyrrhula @confectioner Thanks to all of you for the wonderful comments. I guess the blight might be Mother Nature's way of pruning the trees and allowing the healthy ones to survive.