21.   Palm trees stood scorched and headless.

22.   Some trees stood more than five feet high, and their roots ran down to the footprints.

23.   The highway resembled a charred moonscape with the skeletons of burned trees standing over soil burned gray, black and white from the intense fire the night before.

24.   The massive tree stands behind the golden statue of the god Prometheus and overlooks the ice rink at Rockefeller Plaza.

25.   The same trees are still standing.

26.   The tree stands naked, exposing a dense framework of twiggy branches that arch toward the ground like a weeping willow.

27.   The tree still stands, although a little lopsided.

28.   The trees stand like sentinels now on an otherwise bare nob, and they are so exposed that researchers doubt the murrelets will return.

29.   The workman had a tree stand.

30.   They are cued by the volcanic landscapes of the Devastation Forest in Hawaii, where burned trees stand as their own steles in the lava that destroyed them.