Marathon Pundit: Four Corners Furtherance: Trees

My last post featured flowers, this one is about trees. One reason we travel is to see things we haven't seen before. But it's nice to see an old friend, as I did while walking the Taylor Creek Trail in Zion National Park. Those are Fremont Cottonwoods on the left, a western version of the Eastern Cottonwood, which are so common in the Chicago area. Like their eastern cousins, they are fast growing

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Oak trees, particularly North Red and Bur Oaks, are found in abundance in the forest preserves near Morton Grove. If the habitat of the Gambel Oak, pictured on the upper right was the Midwest, it would be classified as a shrub. But it's a tree in Utah.

The Gambel Oak, is well, a mighty oak compared to the Greenleaf Manzanita, which to me is a mini-shrub. It's a member of the heather family and I encountered the one on the center right in Bryce Canyon National Park.

While in Bryce, in addition to the many Ponderosa Pines I wrote about in an earlier post, there are many Blue Spruces, such as these stately ones on the lower right.

Next: More trees

Earlier posts:

The gateway to the Arches
Petroglyphs
Arches National Park and the symbol of Utah
A final look at Capitol Reef