New Orleans: Riverbend: oak tree, morning walk
Looking up at oak tree boughs catching the early morning light in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans (in the Gulf Coast Region of the southeastern US), on a mostly clear morning in mid-June.
Taken on an early Sunday walk, a rare chance to be outside during the COVID epidemic.
These live oaks (Quercus virginiana), or water oaks, keep most of their leaves through the winter, although the leaf covering tends to look thinner by late January and February and leaves are replaced with fresh new ones in the spring. Their larger branches are often covered in small mosses, ferns (the "resurrection fern," or Pleopeltis polypodioides), and similar epiphytic or parasitic plants.
[Riverbend morning walk 3 oak boughs light 2020 jun 14 f; DSCF0118]
New Orleans: Riverbend: oak tree, morning walk
Looking up at oak tree boughs catching the early morning light in the Riverbend neighborhood of New Orleans (in the Gulf Coast Region of the southeastern US), on a mostly clear morning in mid-June.
Taken on an early Sunday walk, a rare chance to be outside during the COVID epidemic.
These live oaks (Quercus virginiana), or water oaks, keep most of their leaves through the winter, although the leaf covering tends to look thinner by late January and February and leaves are replaced with fresh new ones in the spring. Their larger branches are often covered in small mosses, ferns (the "resurrection fern," or Pleopeltis polypodioides), and similar epiphytic or parasitic plants.
[Riverbend morning walk 3 oak boughs light 2020 jun 14 f; DSCF0118]