This is not a white pine, not sure what it was, other than it came from the state nursery. Several of these along here. They shed hug amounts of needles, but not all trees at the same time.

maybe a nest?

From the ground, looks like a plastic bag stuck up there. digital enlargement seems to be showing me a nest.

Very tall elm

I was told by a forester that it was at American Elm, quite rare to see one so big. I've also been told that a bunch of the trees in the back are elms with dutch elm disease. Plus there's another elm that came up b the pond and is certainly taller than the other nearby trees.

Scotch pines

I got these fromthe state nursery at Licking. Christmas trees, but I let them go and they did fine until this year when the one in front here is not happy at all. And one that was to the right now lies on the ground.

The Climbing Tree

Up close there is a highway up this tree.

a sunny November day

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Pin oak in winter

Tree portraits often require being too close and then hoping to get a good vertical panorama. This is six images with about a 60 or 70 percent overlap. I've found that 20 or even 10 percent overlap works fine for horizontal panoramas, but for vertical ones, a much larger overlap is needed to keep from getting too much distortion. The side effect is that the final crop is usually tall and narrower than I'd like.

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Master Cedar Portrait

There are a lot of these red cedar (Juniperis Virginiaa) at at RAGS, This particular one has a different shape than the others, and is still in a landscaping place of honor even though the landscaping around it has changed a lot. I like how the snow outlines the branches and makes a nice portrait costume. Also how the snow makes this half done landscaping look almost complete.

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The oak is taking a nap and enjoying the fact that overcast sky makes photographing her nake limbs difficult. There are technques for removing it, but I think the way this particular exposure is showing purple fringing is rather nice, almost as if showing the potential green. Well, actually not a single exposure, either. A vertical panorama using four overlapping images a second or so apart.

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