Not my pic alas, but one picked up from Top 10 Incredibly Beautiful Tree Tunnels via TPP. Photo credit is pawelklarecki.blogspot.ro.
The quality of light in the upper branches is gorgeous - the trees seem to be holding the light.
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Unfortunately, the understory these days consists of 20,000 automobiles. But at one time, it was gorgeous.
Woulda bin more gorgeous if he'd stayed of the photoshop. That orange is fake. (Surely you knew this?)
Well, duh, what isn't these days?
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