I find it peculiar how many things in life are “double-edged swords” in that the things we often value are quite regularly a bit of a nuisance. Such is the case with the subject of today’s photo. We have a 60 foot Ponderosa Pine in front of our house that provides awesome shade in the summer and windbreak in the winter but it is always in a state of shedding pine needles. The pine needles are most certainly a nuisance but the benefits the tree provide far outweigh the seemingly endless rain of needles.
I made the photo because I liked the way the setting sun was illuminating the top part of the tree and appreciated the way the tree had grown over the years.
