Saturday, April 2, 2011

Branches like antlers

Both this weekend and last weekend, I saw some trees whose branches looked like antlers.  What came to mind was that they must be sumac.  It was only later that it occurred to me that there is a kind of sumac called staghorn sumac.  It was just there in my mind that antlers = sumac, without any thought of staghorn.

Below is a photo of the trees I suspect of being sumac, taken at Peebles Island, near the crossroads near the beginning of the trail.  I was going to take a picture of the tops of the trees, because that's where they look most like antlers, but then when I moved my camera and saw the view with the horizon, with forest below sky, I liked the look of that better than the look of the photo with just branches and sky.

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