Rare moment in snowy winter twilight: A downy back-lit feather alights on branch... Poet Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul..."

Snowy woods close-up of fallen birch tree (Betula alleghaniensis) - Canadensis, Pocono Mts, Pennsylvania.

Ornamental Crab-apple Branch (genus "Mallus"); Nov., Eastern PA

Ornamental Crabapples STOP; November, Quakertown, PA

sugar maple, yellow with autumn color ( Acer Saccharum )

Pink Flowering Dogwood on our street, Quakertown

Japanese Magnolia tree shoot - 4/28/2015

Yellow crabapples in fall, closeup

Franklin tree (Franklinia alatamaha) at Linden Hill gardens - Ottsville, PA

Acer negundo (Boxelder) in spring with new growth; also called ashleaf maple

White Eastern redbud or Cercis canadensis "alba" branch; aka "Judas tree" --Bucks County, PA.

less common redbud tree w/ white blossoms- (Cercis canadensis "alba", or White Eastern Redbud) AKA "Judas tree"

Black Walnut tree (Juglans nigra L.) Silhouetted in Sunset-- Quakertown, PA; spring

Magnolia soulangeana in Morning

Humongous Tree on Moravian College Grounds, Bethlehem, PA

Red Maple (Acer rubrum) near Orefield, Lehigh Valley PA

Sawn End of Felled Red Oak Tree (Quercus rubra)

Crabapple or Malus (?) tree on Christopher Dock Mennonite H.S. campus

Nest in tree in North Carolina

Moreton Bay Fig Roots in Ravine - Balboa Park, CA

Lydia in giant Moreton Bay fig tree roots; Balboa Park, CA

Lydia in the roots of Moreton Bay fig tree in ravine - Balboa Park, CA

Younger tree in ravine in Balboa park (same species as huge one)

Staghorn Sumac, October, PA