31.   Some of those same youths returned a few months later to plant trees along streets lined with forlorn rectangles of dirt.

32.   Strands of multicolored lights hung like Spanish moss from the pecan and oak trees along the banks.

33.   The cutting of trees along the stream bank -- the riparian zone -- has deprived some aquatic insects of the leaf litter on which they feed.

34.   The forest is really more like the Internet, with messages shuttling busily between the individual trees along a common underground network.

35.   The older fishermen here time the arrival of the bass by the flowering of dogwood trees along the banks.

36.   The palm trees along freshly paved Harbor Drive were so new they looked rented.

37.   The plane severed trees along Metacomet Ridge and the two engines on the plane became clogged with tree limbs, sputtered, and lost power.

38.   The unnatural deluge undermines the roots of trees along creeks and destroys the banks that nourish delicate plant and animal life.

39.   The width of the wash dwarfs the pale green band of trees along the bank.

40.   The world inside this mammoth Italianate palace by the sea is as breezy as the ocean wind that bows the palm trees along the approach.