The Squeaky Rantwick Gets the Trees!

What can I say? I whined and complained and a whole bunch of TARATS entries came in over the weekend and this morning!

 

I was gonna post about them one at a time, but that seems a little too work-like. So, visit the entries page available on the sidebar >>> to see the 8 new arrivals in the contest!

 

Here is some of the stuff that was in the accompanying emails:

 

Eat your heart out Mr. Rantwick. Here are my FIVE, count'em, FIVE entries. If you can't handle FIVE knock-down gorgeous photos of spectacular Vermont trees, then you get to decide which ones to enter in your silly contest. May the best VERMONT TREE win!

 

anniebikes

 

Oh, I can handle it, anniebikes, no worries. You just keep talking that Vermont smack.

 

This contest does not discriminate based on colour, creed or even species... here's email from Leroy's Dog:

 

Trees. Prospect Park. Brooklyn. Before the hurricane.

It's not easy taking pictures when you don't have an opposable thumb.

 

I was not surprised that a dog used fairly few words, but I was surprised he knew the word "opposable". Impressive.

 

Last but not least Recumbent Conspiracy Theorist is staying in the hunt (and seasonally apt) for sure with his Cemetery Tree.

 

Hey hey rantwick!

Here's another for the slide show. Not sure of the species of this one. Some kind of nut tree think.
 
Here's a hint for leaf snoopers as to where to look for nice single trees; your local cemetery. I rode my bicycle to a cemetery here in town and saw this nice one. Didn't see any spooky ghosts though.

Cheers,
-RCT

One of anniebikes' trees was from a cemetery too... I wonder if those trees are, ahem, better fertilized? Was that too much? If so, sorry. For myself, I'm thinking I could (and well may) do a lot worse than feeding a tree after I kick off...

 

Better Go,

R A N T W I C K

Waa! Waaaa! WAAAAH!

It wouldn't be October if I wasn't whining and wailing about wanting more trees, so here I am. I have decided to try web voting for the entrants in TARATS again this year and I have made a display page for the entrants that I will add a voting widget to when the time comes.

 

Until then, all current entrants can be viewed on this page, from now until the end of the contest or even longer, I guess.

 

If you follow that link you will find 4 trees in the slideshow. 4 is a paltry number. I fear my contest is losing what little popularity it had, perhaps because I am constantly whining about it.

 

I know many parts of the USA (my largest trading partner) aren't ready yet, so I'm hoping I'm just being stupid and all kinds of entries are going to come flooding in soon.

 

Anyway, that page will always be up to date with the latest and greatest for anyone needing a foliage fix. 

 

  

Yer Pal,

R A N T W I C K