Same Tree With Cows Beneath

Sculpture By Nature

A Tree That Asked to be Photographed

This old oak on Dragoon Road, near the Amerind Museum, grows so close to a huge rock as to seem part of it. The bright blue gate and small red cross, apparently a roadside memorial, add color to the dusty natural scene.

Rich, Warm -- Brown!

Now that winds have stripped the poppies and birches and most of the maples of their bright-colored leaves, the more subtle tones of beech and oak foliage comes to the fore.