Textures

“Plant Trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival - oxygen and books.” 

A. Whitney Brown

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Sun Shower #3 - August rain, Red/Scarlet Oak, Lewisville, TX Gary Oak branches, Lewisville, TX Bur Oakleaf and shadow Linden flowers, early March, Lewisville-Coppell border, TX
Nests, Dallas Arboritum Ivy-covered Oak trees, Fort Worth Zoo, Texas New Sping buds, Coppell, TX January leaves, NE Texas
Bamboo - Fort Worth Zoo, TX Forest floor, Sierra Madres mountains, Mexico Ash “fruit”; winged keys, early March, Coppell, TX Host to vines, Andrew Brown Jr. Park, Coppell, TX
Sycamore forest near a canal in Coppell, TX Ponderosa Pine whorl, revealing female flower bud, western Oklahoma / Kansas border Barbed branches of an unknown short tree/large bush, NE Texas “Mother and Child” - branch growth embedded closely inside tree trunk, and shadow
American Elm branch patterns, NE Texas “Filigree” - cells decayed, revealing the delicate leaf framework in an Oak leaf Branch sillhouettes at the Dallas Arboretum Cedar bark, eastern Wyoming
New leaves, mid March at sunset in Coppell, TX Netleaf Hackberry - Coppell, TX - bark textures vary as warts to layered ridges Lichen and moss on the bark of a tree called the “Toothache Tree” (needs confirming); the bark yeilds medicinal properties. Early Spring Sunset, Lewisville, Texas