Sunday, November 11, 2007

Tamarack


In the forests around Newman Lake there aren’t many broadleaf trees so you don’t see a lot of leaves swirling around, but you do get this, a conifer (tamarack or western larch) that loses it ‘needles’ and creates this fantastic golden brown carpet on the forest floor. This effect is only around for a few weeks and then it’s gone…

2 comments:

CS said...

I've never seen that. But the house I grew up in Georgia was in a pine forest and had a carpet of pine straw instead of grass.

kevin said...

cs--The east and west coasts are so different. I'm pleased to share this with you.