Following the identification error reported at reference 1, I stopped by the tree in question the other day to take a few pictures.
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Location
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View from the base of the tree, taken from the car park adjacent, that is to say the one at the bottom of Lion Park Avenue. Sun behind me.
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Zoomed one
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Zoomed two
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Fallen twig
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Clearly deciduous, so not a coastal redwood. Branches out of reach, so the only close-up available was of a fallen twig. Nevertheless, the needles seem to be flat, arranged in opposing pairs, with, oddly, the dead, brown needles looking flatter than the live, green needles.
So we have some evidence. Now I need to study the books again.
PS 1: on first attempt, failed on picture spacing again, failures which seem to be connected with having pictures without intervening text. And with inserting pictures later, as an afterthought. Not right in compose view, not right in published view. Can't see what is wrong with the HTML. Although I did go as far as removing what seemed to be a redundant '<div> ... </div>' block - which did not have any effect that I could see at all. All very irritating. Resolution: must resist the temptation to fiddle.
PS 2: resolution discarded after refuelling at breakfast. Copied the text into Notepad, then started the post over. One error during reconstruction, in that the last picture, the fallen twig, got put after the reference below, instead of where it is now. Something that seems to happen from time to time, and once it has happened, it seems to keep happening. The answer in this case was to delete the text and paste it back in after the offending picture. Didn't look at the HTML at all.
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Poor quality lion and unicorn
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PS 3: all this happening inside a template provided by the Blogger people, that is to say by Google, I associated to all the difficulty we once had in the world of work, building templates using Wordperfect, at that time still a big product; if already wilting in the face of Microsoft Word. To try and supply our users with perfect templates with which to build the perfect Treasury minute and the perfect Treasury letter, perfect, in so far as layout was concerned, every time. Inter alia, getting the crest right on the letter proved surprisingly difficult - and it proved difficult today, twenty years later, even with the benefit of Google image search. Templates which probably cost a lot more to get right than it turned out to be worth. Minutes and letters which have, in the event, more or less vanished under the rising tide of emails and social-media-like sharing tools?
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