The ground below us can sometimes be a wonderful canvas on which nature creates its paintings. These four examples were all created the same day at Blandy Experimental Farm, the State Arboretum of Virginia. What we have here (clockwise from upper left) are photographs of what we found below a group of maple, fir, beech (?) and cypress trees on November 20th of 2021.

I’m not certain whether what I’ve listed as beech leaves are, in fact, beech. Does anyone know?

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