Red Oaks and white snow

While running on the North Branch trails in the Frank Brobrystke Forest Preserve in Morton Grove this afternoon, I encountered this stately grove of Red Oaks.

Like Pin Oaks, their red cousins keep their leaves, despite being brown and dry, through until the end of winter. Which today seems a long way off.

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