We make take plants and trees for granted.... however each of these provides the basic ingredient that we need to survive: Oxygen.

Some provide other forms of sustance for other life, in the form of fruits or vegetables.

These things are yet another example of those "simple things...." that we all must remember & protect.

Fox-tails along the riverbank-Kankakee River State Park-Illinois      Aug. 2007

Coleus Standing Tall- San Jacinto, California                               July  2008

Xanthoria-"The Century Plant" & Strip Bark Gum Trees- Anakie, Victoria-Australia 

                                                                                          Jan. 1977

Strip Bark Eucalyptus Tree- Anakie, Victoria- Australia              June 1975

Wattles in Bloom- Anakie, Victoria- Australia                           Aug. 1978

Frond of a California Palm Tree- San Jacinto, California             June 2008