Gunpowder River, in the coastal plain south of Annapolis. My mother still owns the 45 acre property, which is about 3/4 wooded. The oak, red maple, and tulip poplar trees in the pictures are very familiar to me.

After college in Minnesota, I moved to the midwest, which is where my mother grew up in southeast Wisconsin.

Kos's brilliant hotlist idea makes it possible to still say thanks.

I appreciate too your deeply metaphoric tree images - particularly the pair of similar trees with smaller ones or branches in between, maybe driven there by spring flood.