My Neighbourhood

Ice storm on Campus 05

The law of probabilities says that anything that can happen, will. This photo is empirical proof that the odds of this particular leaf fluttering down from a neighbouring maple tree and lodging itself in the rugged bark of this red pine tree are some value greater than zero. QED.

Trees

Biskupice, maj 2008

the soft, new growth of the pines, so different from the spiky, prickly needles they will become

Found in a pine tree. It kind of looks like a hand flipping the bird too.

There have been a lot of dead pine trees in this area - July 8, 2011

Ruby-throated Hummingbird rests in a white pine tree at sunset.