#strobus

Eastern White pine (Pinus strobus), sweating some pitch. Had a windfall limb come down in the access way behind our house during the winter storm a few weeks ago, dragged it in for firewood. It'll need to season probably a year before it'll be any good to burn, and even then I won't burn it indoors, but next summer it will give us a nice campfire it two! Was stupid enough to not wear gloves, took a lot of scrubbing to get the pitch off my hands. For real sticky stuff like pine pitch, I strap some cheap coffee grounds in water and use it as a scrub with some hand soap; the acid in the coffee, and the grit of the grounds works surprisingly well. Also learned that green pine apparently doesn't split well, which was surprising because green maple split beautifully! Maybe it's not because it's green, maybe pine just doesn't split well. #freshwood #firewood #pine #pinusstrobus #pinus #strobus #pinaceae (at Guilderland, New York)

#nofilter, I'm guessing this is how the white pines get their name, though I honestly only recently noticed the incredibly light color of some of the bark! This is a branch from an Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus), with the branch of a Norway maple (Acer platanoides) for comparison. #whitepine #easternwhitepine #pinusstrobus #pinus #pinaceae #norwaymaple #maple #treebark #lightbark #acer #acerplatanoides #aceraceae #strobus #pine #pinetree #quinquefoliae (at Guilderland, New York)