Reflections of Trees

Today’s image is from our travels on Halloween while staying in the Poconos. The beech trees are among the last trees in the Pocono area to hold and release their auburn leaves.

The week just got away from me! I still want so much to share all the fun things I saw in the Poconos, but you know how it goes after vacation...

Monday I’ll tell you about where we stayed, followed by some highlights of the parks we visited, the lakes and rivers we fished, and the trees and forests that kept us company along the way.

What a beech!

Today, with literally hundreds of tree pictures and more than a dozen individual tree species to share with you, I set out with my camera yet again to return with another 130 images to review!

Remember all that rain I talked about? Yeah, well, those trees made good use of it! Every tree now has at least a glimmer of green (the black walnuts were the last ones to make a showing, and they’re only just getting started).

Not to be outdone, our previously budding beech also enjoyed the rain, and is now covering herself with a shower of new leaves, as seen in the image above.

Sun of a Beech!

Years ago, an Armenian friend of mine shared an anecdote wherein she took her family to a movie after they had recently arrived in the United States. While my friend was already quite skilled with the English language and American pop culture, the same was not yet true of the elders in her family.

At some point in the movie, the SOB phrase was uttered, and her father (or was it grandfather?) cried out, “Oh, such beautiful expressions in this language! Ahh, the sun of a beach!”

For some reason, this is one of those stories that I can never get out of my head, and it STILL makes me giggle! I just had to give it another good turn. But alas, I digress…

During my recent explorations of the northeastern corner at the farm, one of the first trees my landlady identified was this enormous beech tree! As you can see, she’s a real beauty, and still only just opening her leaves.

I caught some of these images in the rising sun a few days ago, so you could see some of the details in her big, wonderful trunk! In coming weeks, I’ll be sure to revisit her so you can see what the leaves look like once they open. With a huge, gorgeous tree like this, you can be certain that there is more to learn.