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I ride up the road a little and stop again to look at the sculptural shadows of the trees on the next ridge (Wasno Ridge).

05907-sculptural-near-wasno-800px.jpg I walk a short distance up the road to check out a buckeye grove.ThumbnailsPinus sabiniana (grey pines) along Coit Road heading toward Mahoney Ridge.I walk a short distance up the road to check out a buckeye grove.ThumbnailsPinus sabiniana (grey pines) along Coit Road heading toward Mahoney Ridge.I walk a short distance up the road to check out a buckeye grove.ThumbnailsPinus sabiniana (grey pines) along Coit Road heading toward Mahoney Ridge.I walk a short distance up the road to check out a buckeye grove.ThumbnailsPinus sabiniana (grey pines) along Coit Road heading toward Mahoney Ridge.I walk a short distance up the road to check out a buckeye grove.ThumbnailsPinus sabiniana (grey pines) along Coit Road heading toward Mahoney Ridge.

The afternoon sun is just right, and the trees there far enough apart, that their individual shadows can be discerned bending over the warped landscape.