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As a teenager I had a fascination with Giant Sequoia trees, sometimes called Redwoods. (Actually, there are two types of trees Sequoias and Coastal Redwoods, which are cousins.) I grew up near the inland varieties near Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. I read tons of books on the giant trees, and went on numerous hikes through the parks to admire the behemoths.

I guess my obsession with gigantic phallic objects started long before I realized I was gay…

Via digg:
Nick Nichols, the “Indiana Jones of Photography,” produced the first-ever high-definition, seamless composite photo of an entire redwood. It’s 300 feet tall and between 1,500 and 2,000 years old. The photo was created with 84 very high-resolution images, taken at approximately 3-foot intervals from a vertical dolly rigged parallel to the tree.

Because it was raining and snowing during the whole Memorial Day weekend, my family and I couldn’t go on our Kings Canyon hike like we’d planned. Instead we hiked around the paved half-hour General Grant Tree path in Grant Grove. The Grant Tree is a Sequoia and is the second largest tree in the world. And because of its particular beauty, it was deemed the Nation’s Christmas Tree in 1926.