2023 | Marin County, California
The Bishop pine, P. muricata, was one of my dad’s favorites. They grow quickly, with brittle structure, and I find them in mature stands with few remaining side branches, crowning out with broad, almost flat-topped needle fields high above.
And they seed in cohorts, living only about 100 years, and like bamboos, they seem to come down as a generation, all at once.