Red Oaks

Various trees come into their fullest beauty at different times of the year. Tamaracks are golden in the fall. Maples are luscious green in the spring. Conifers add color in the winter. Sugar maples are scarlet in the fall, Crab apple and pear and plum trees are beautiful with flowers in the spring. Willow trees blow gracefully in the wind in the summer especially when the branches are hanging over a lake or a stream. Since it was too cold to walk outside today we took the stairs. This is a view of a gorgeous red oak from the fourth floor west window. Now is the time for red oaks to shine. Come March these oaks will loose their leaves. The reddish, thick leaves will lie on the snow and absorb the sunlight so that a leaf shaped depression is melted into the snowbank.