(352/365) This small Beech tree in my front garden is still providing some seasonal colour on this dull grey day. Our neighbour often puts cattle in the adjacent field during the Summer hence the set up for the electric wire. I just noticed the lichen on the post. Might try for a close up another day. HFF!

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Beech leaves on the outside edge of Captains Wood

This beautiful small beech forest is a popular place for a walk.

Taken with Cosina Hi-Lite DLR and Cosinon Auto 50mm f1.8. Fomapan 200 developed in Fomadon Excel.

Frankley Beeches Worcestershire.

A few leaves on a beautiful copper beech tree at sunset :-)

Sunlight on a single beech leaf in Captains Wood, taken on one of my walks this week

Beech and pine trees frame a bridleway through Darwin Forest in the Derbyshire Peak District

Taken before the autumn made it's enterance.

The snow-covered branches of a beech tree hang down like a winter curtain.

A combination of dead and alive beech leaves in Monkton Wood, taken on my walk last week

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Winter will soon be over, and the sapling beech trees will lose their dead leaves as this year's leaf buds open. One theory as to why the leaves remain on is to protect the younger trees from browsing deer. At least one study suggests that the buds hidden by the leaves do not get eaten and therefore become the new shoots and leaves in spring. This juvenile trait may disappear as the tree matures and becomes less susceptible to damage.

Eno River State Park

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Ghost Forest Nienhagen, Baltic Sea

Dead beech leaves from last year on a sapling in Captains Wood, spotted as I was on my walk and takin snow photos this week

Carlo Ferrari's Beech 18 is a remarkable example of this twin-engine 'taildragger'. First flown in 1937, the type saw extensive service during World War Two as a trainer and light transport (amongst other duties). After the war, the Beech 18 was a well-known business aircraft, perhaps the King Air of its day. Carlo's G18S, which has made appearances on television and in movies

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Explore #267 on Thursday, November 5, 2015

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A sprawling copper beech tree in snow at East Rock Park in Hamden, Connecticut.

Mystic beech trees - Shoal Hill Reserve

Frozen Beech Leaf.

Beech leaves have a wonderful mixture of yellow, gold and russet shades in Autumn, making the woodland bright in the low sunlight of Autumn days.

A re-edit of the Beech 18 that was on display at McConnell Air Force Base a few years ago.

A bit of light through the beech leaves from last weekend.

An image of the beech avenue at Moors Crichel, Dorset.

Look great even when they are old.

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Mature beech tree with its younger saplings

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Parakeets like to nest on beeches, it's a lot of hollows there.

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It is very rare for me to take landscape shots without any water in the shot! This was taken in Derbyshire so well away from my usual beach haunts! I would have preferred to have mist around the trees but it was the only chance to get there so you take what you can get! Maybe one day I will return and try again.

A beautiful line of old twisty beech trees to the right and tall straight pines to the left. I couldn't resist a square crop to this image.

Beech trees above the gorge of the Falls of Acharn.