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SUCIA ISLAND JUNIPERS

5/18/2015

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I HAVE WRITTEN IN PREVIOUS POSTINGS about the wonderful juniper tonewood in a tenor that I built recently.  Today I went on a Rotary Club cruise to Sucia Island in the northern San Juans.  Rocky, dry, windswept and incredibly beautiful place.  I went searching for Juniperis Maritima, the "Seaside Juniper" endemic to the Salish Sea.  I found many specimens, some large and tall, some contorted and tortured growing out of the sandstone bed-rock of the islands.  Here are a few photos of a beautiful day and some great junipers.  I would never cut one down- but it is refreshing to know that they are thriving in this beautiful place.  It is also refreshing to know that I have enough of the wood to make perhaps a dozen more tenors.
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