'What do the trees look like in your area?'

I have been entranced with Sabino Canyon's images of cacti mingled with deciduous trees in their spring foliage. Diane C. asks us the question 'What do the trees look like in your area?' Here is my response.

The magpie in the above image was an instance of serendipity (also a recent topic of Diane's!) I had not noticed it perch in the sunlit twigs as I took the photograph.

Emerging from the shade of the conifers, you meet the softly coloured trunks of birches.

A tenacious leaf from yesteryear shines among the twigs of a young birch in bud.

Laugh in delight at the wriggly branches of Corylus contorta cascading before red dogwood stems!

Pleached limes make a bold ink-like statement across the March sky.

As the sun lowers its light, the papery bark of Prunus serrula gleams like a mystic aura among pale twigs.

A Spring surge of shimmering green and vermilion!