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Beloved bottle trees are risky BOTTLE trees can be found far and wide across the Western Downs, but experts are reminding people to ensure the Queensland icons are in good health. Two bottle trees have had to be removed from Dalby properties in recent weeks after they fell over due to rotting. Toowoomba-based arborist Russell Clark said while the trees are Queensland natives they are not endemic to Dalby and often rot because their trunks are soft and fleshy or their roots don't take to the soil. You'll see them in Chinchilla and other places around the Western Downs but the soil type is different here - they're not native to the area, you won't see them growing in a paddock,” he said. "Normally trees that fall over have some sort of problem with the roots. "If the wind is strong and there is plenty of rain, that's when there is most likely movement in a tree. "They are an amazing tree and an Australian icon and I hate people cutting them down. "If you have a bottle tree in the wrong spot, try and find someone like me to remove it to take it to a tree orphanage.” "They live to a fair age so sometimes they can be rotten on the inside but still standing up,” he said. Interesting story about bottle trees from Courrier Mail. www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/dalby/beloved-bott...

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"The name of the mountain was formerly spelled "Mount Kosciusko," an Anglicisation; but the version "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales." --Wikipedia Size Does Matter! "Various measurements of the peak originally called by that name showed it to be slightly lower than its neighbour, Mount Townsend, and the names were thereupon transposed by the New South Wales Lands Department, so that Mount Kosciuszko still remains the name of the highest peak of Australia, and Mount Townsend ranks as second." -- Year Book Australia, 1910

This is the drift to the south and east of Mt Kosciuszko. The drift persists into summer longer than almost all other drifts in the mountains. After a winter of particularly heavy snowfall there are remnants of this drift that persist through to the next winter, although this is becoming increasingly rare. Australia does not have any permanent snowpack. Lake Cootapatamba is out of shot to the right and the summit of the mountain is a little beyond the top lefthand corner. Cootapatamba is a glacial tarn, and is the highest lake in Australia. The summit, the highest point in inhabited Australia (there is a higher peak called Big Ben on Heard Island, an Australian territory) is only 2,228 metres ASL. The land is low and eroded. The Main Range is in the distance.

Of the recent additions this photo really caught my eye, and I thought it was a shame about the crack and missing piece. After spending a bit more time than I should have (ninety minutes) I managed to clean it up and recreate the missing bit. It's by no means a professional job, but then that's what I was paid for. ;) Happy to know what people think too! If there's anybody else crazy enough to spend time repairing these photos we ought to start a group for repairing these.

Can you imagine this being in a playground today?

Yeah, that's not dangerous at all.

Other Bain/LOC photos taken at the Midsummer Day Festival of the girls of Washington Irving High School, on June, 23, 1911, in Bronx Park [corrected on some photos to Pelham Bay Park]: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163516194/#] Story in The New York Times, June 24, 1911 [scrolling required]: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E1DA1E3EE2...