Magic hour

It was 75 degrees today, and the walk to the post office in the village seemed like the perfect way to get exercise AND photos. Almost everything looks better in the “magic hour” just before sunset. Beech trees, though, are particularly glorious. In Nature Valley, they hover around Disharoon Creek. Beech trees love the moist, [...]

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drive-by sightings

PS to previous entry: Even from a speeding car, beech trees are easily identified. And are pretty enough to stop and take a photo.

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Unmistakable

Today is the best day of the year to identify an American beech. Here in North Georgia, the day is so gray that it’s dark out at high noon. The kind of thick day we used to get in Seattle – when you think that the sun itself is science fiction, and that nothing in [...]

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Still unsolved

The mystery of why beech trees retain their leaves dangled over me this week. But Jim found this at a blog by freelance writer Caroline Brown, called “Earth Friendly Gardening“: Marcescence is when a plant part dies but is not shed. It’s most frequently noticed in the winter, when certain deciduous tree species don’t lose [...]

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