21.   And trees at park entrances, like this linden, are usually the first to go.

22.   Bacon made his point by chaining himself to a tree at the park Wednesday.

23.   A dying tree looms over the scene mirroring a verdant tree at the right.

24.   A rope swing dangles from a tree at the base of the lower portion over a muddy bog, where a sulfurlike stench wafts past.

25.   A talking banyan tree at its location in the Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn., spouts an ecological message twice a minute.

26.   Check out the bullet holes in the palm tree at this once pleasant condo complex in Phoenix.

27.   Chris Matsushige works Wednesday on the trees at the entrance.

28.   Copses spill as though flows of green lava, and solo trees at the crest could be dancers against azure flats, the sky.

29.   Critics also blasted the chopping down of trees at the front of the graveyard.

30.   Crawford said some of the trees had become hazardous since the September storm that whipped through downtown Austin, uprooting trees at the Capitol and elsewhere.