I also don't live in Michigan, but I do have a Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest, which includes Michigan. I just flipped through the section on trees and unfortunately it mostly just shows leaves. Sometimes pinecones, sometimes a branch, and sometimes a section of trunk to show the texture of the bark. But no full trees. I know one of my books does show full trees, let me dig around and find it. I'm not sure if it would cover Michigan, but if we have them in Illinois, you might have the same ones up there.
I tried looking up 'Evergreen Trees in Michigan' and looked at a bunch of pics to find ones that look like they're melting. Do you mean something like this? Spoiler: Picea Glauca images ("Pendula" White Spruce) Any chance this could be your other tree? Tall Evergreen Trees @ Alamy Unfortunately it doesn't say what kind of evergreen though. Just tall ones.
I found an even meltier evergreen tree: Spoiler: Even meltier It's an Inversa Norway Spruce and flourishes in USDA Hardiness Zones: 2-7 (I'd need to look that up). Found on this page.
Try looking for articles on tree silhouettes. There is a chart of tree silhouettes part way down the page here: https://www.familyhandyman.com/list/how-to-identify-tree-species/ Photographs of full trees here https://leafyplace.com/types-of-trees/ You can also call your local ag extension service and ask. They might even have a tree silhouette chart to give away.
Thanks! This didnt help me identify the melty one, but it did help me find the really tall one (a red pine!), and another one (hickory!) I think @Xoic found the melty one. Norway Spruce looks like it, but less narrow
Found it! Yep its is a Norway Spruce. The one in the picture is a "mature" one. We drove past a bunch of them and to me (and my morbid mind), it looked like flesh melting off of bone Spoiler: Melty Spruce
I'm in a FB site dedicated to landscape photos from my home state. There's a group of members who keep introducing their photos with Biblical quotations or paeans to the Glory of God who created this wonder (even if the wonder turns out to be a jet trail across a plowed field or some such). Some other posters, including me, suggest that injecting gospel into the site is annoying to "nonbelievers" or at least to non-testifiers. The response from the religious posters (who must be a lot of fun at parties) and some administrators is that "if you don't like the words, just ignore them," and, "you don't have to post here, you know," or even "if you've experienced God you'd understand." I like the photos and the memories they stir up, and some photos are downright beautiful, and I've contributed quite a few. I don't want to leave (ore get banned) but this whole fundamentalist Bible-thumping seriously annoys and embarrasses me.
I think the administrators have made it clear that praising God is what they do but they will tolerate well-behaved heretics. No further point in arguing with them. I guess some sweet banalities are the price of admission.
You are right. Sometimes I can't help myself from arguing the point. But it's not worth the candle. I guess I'll just look at the pictures and skip the words, sort of like I did with Playboy magazine back in the day.
Oh well. Sometimes I ger confused, and sometimes I'm the only person who listens to me. Or should. But I am right, nonetheless. Both of me.
Ok, this is incredibly dumb and I probably just haven't looked hard enough, but I can not find a schedule analyzer. One of the stories I'm working on is an adventure story. One of the characters, a ten-year-old girl, starts out as someone who has this strict schedule where she does this certain thing at this certain time and she's perfectly ok with it, until she gets thrust into an adventure that takes her out of her comfort zone. It'll be a visual medium so I wanted to create a schedule that the viewer can see, just so it's not just the character talking about what she has to get done, they can actually see what she does every single day. It's more complex than I'm making it sound. I want to make sure that the schedule is actually overwhelming for a ten-year-old so I tried searching for a schedule analyzer but no luck. I feel like that should be the easiest kind of analyzer to make and yet, I can not find one.
You could simply make something up for the purposes of your story. It doesn't have to be something that exists in the real world.
The fact that so many books on goodreads — all of which have respectable aggregate ratings, and some of which are highly acclaimed — have one-star reviews as their top review. You might imagine I’m just defensive over books I like/love being publicly scorned, but actually I mostly use the reviews to help pick out books to add to my to-read list. So I haven’t read them, and therefore aren’t protective of them. I’d just prefer the top review to be more representative of the average reader’s estimation of the book, rather than the minority who read it (or attempted to read it) and judged it as the literary equivalent of a bowel movement.
