Acorn to Oak Tree

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Oak Leaves, A Portrait © 2007

At the forest’s edge
An acorn has taken fruit
Four leaves, an oak tree.

This fledgling oak tree was photographed in Owens Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin in late October.

Solitary Tree

Solitary Tree

Solitary Tree ©2007

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward. ~ Patricia Sampson

This solitary tree stands in a small remnant of prairie located in Owen Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin.

The One-Day-Late Spook

One-Day-Late Spook

Halloween Spook © 2007

Rather a drab late autumn field…until you check out the visitor in the corner. What do you see?

Photo taken in a haunted field at Owens Park, a Nature Conservancy in Madison, Wisconsin on Halloween morning, 2007.

 

Two Shadows on Halloween

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Two kinds of shadows today. The first, a shadowy tree trunk photo for Halloween. This is nearly the last autumn color left in my neck of the woods. (Sorry, bad pun!) Most of the color has changed into crunchy brown on the forest floor, but this clump of trees posed for an early morning shot today. Photographed at Owen Park, a Madison Conservation Park in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sadly, while I was hiking I saw two steam shovels leveling land for a subdivision 100 yards from the trail. They cast the second shadow, a shadow on my spirit. Soon we’ll have nothing left to conserve but concrete. Go, progress! (Go away, that is.)

© 2007 barbara