February 20th, 2010 at 1:09

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather, American Author (1873-1947)

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Hornbeam, Asheville, North Carolina Cottonwood seeds, Dallas, Texas Eucalyptus, Santa Cruz, CA Pine cones, Kangaroo Island, Australia
American Elm keys, Edmonton, Alberta American Elm, early March, Coppell, TX Catalpa legumes, 8 -10 inches long, October, South Dallas, TX Jacaranda seed pods, about 2 inches across - Chapala, Mexico
Sweetgum seed capsules, Bakersfield, California Sweetgum seed capsule, Irving, Texas Large pods of the Flamboyant tree, about 14 inches / 195 cm long - Chapala, Mexico Flamboyant tree seed pods, Chapala, Mexico
Bigleaf Maple keys, Yosemite National Forest, California Daphne seeds in pods, Guadalahara, Mexico Sycamore drupe, January, Coppell, TX Sycamore drupes - Coppell, Texas in January
Ash keys, early March in Coppell, Texas American Elm fruit/keys in dappled sunlight, Coppell, TX mid-March Silver Birch, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Laurel, San Francisco, California
Lodgepole Pine, eastern Wyoming - Cones are technically the conifers’ fruit. White Cedar cones, Kingston, Ontario Oklahoma - Kansas border Longleaf Pine cones, North Carolina
Cypress in December, Lewisville, Texas Mexican Pine cone about 8 inches long, southwest Mexico Spruce and Fir cones, Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, ON Canada Douglas Fir cones, Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada
Spruce cones - Kingston, Ontario Mexican Pine cone sillhouette, Sierra Madres Mountains, Mexico Pinyon cone, Grand Canyon, Arizona Monterey Cypress, north of San Francisco, California

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