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Eliza Waters 
Beautiful. Trees sometimes look their best without leaves.
Thank you, Audrey. Winter trees show their distinctive shapes, quite beautiful!
A wonderful reminder to look up every now and then!
Absolutely! The exfoliating bark on this massive tree makes it really stand out from the rest.
Big, solid tree…and it can hear the warmth Erika 🤗❤️🙏
Oops…Eliza…sorry 🤗❤️🙏
🙂
Such a majestic tree!
Thank you, Flavia. Mottled like your eucalyptus, but with a massive crown, quite magnificent!
Great shot
Merci!
Sycamores, gorgeous even when bare. 😊
Their beauty really shines against a blue sky. 🙂 Thanks, Pepper.
Beauty reaching for the sky…
They are such beautiful trees!
One of my favorite trees
Majestic!
there used to be a huge sycamore around the corner from my home
it s gone now but i remember the big balls they produced
we called them itch bombs
Sorry to read of its demise. 😦 There are many growing along the waterways in our area. They self-sow quite readily!
a mighty tree indeed
I noticed those sycamores can get really big.
Yes, their crowns are massive, as are their trunks. The largest one east of the Mississippi grows near the CT river just 20 minutes away from us. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-buttonball-tree-sunderland-massachusetts
That is a big tree. I remember the Cooper Beeches in CT and how big they were. I found the biggest Live Oak near where I used to live had a 32-foot circumference, 100 feet crown, and 67 feet high. Oddly their bottom branches would lay on the ground.
Old growth trees truly are magnificent!
What a beautiful tree.
Thank you, it’s the biggest one on our property and gives me great pleasure. 🙂
I regularly see a dozen large sycamores that have been planted in an area of a home where I’m working, and where there’s expansive land between the home itself and the street. They’ve finally finished exfoliating, and their white trunks shine against the blue sky as they put on their fresh leaves. Another single sycamore near a reflecting pool there is enormous, and impressive.
They are extraordinary trees!
Beautiful! I love this vantage point!
Thank you, Dale. 🙂
Pleasure is mine!
An elegant pic of an elegant tree.
Thank you, Monika!
I love this perspective.
Thank you, Maria! 🌳
I love the sight of bare branches against a blue sky.
Winter ‘bones’ can be wonderful!
Love them!
It looks like a mighty tree!
The biggest on our property. Not sure its age, maybe around 50?? They can grow for centuries!
They can run rings around us 😉
For sure!
this makes me feel like i’m stretching to the sky- so beautiful
Thank you, nice thought! 🙂
Nicely captured, Eliza! Looks like a beautiful blue sky … perfect for showcasing this sycamore.
Thank you, Debbie. They are such beautiful trees!
Magnificently reached for the sky, beautiful!
Thank you, Donna. 🙂
Lovely. Sycamores are so wonderful. They line the north side of the Potomac where I am and in the winter, they are ghost trees because of their bark. One of the first poems I ever write involved a sycamore. HUGE leaves and usually the first to fall in autumn (actually, late August, so not autumn yet). How I do run on.
Ode to a great tree! I have much fondness for them, esp. the one in the photo. There are some very large specimens in our area, one of which holds an active eagle nest.
The sycamore is one tree you share with Texas. We have some very large ones in Austin.
It is very widespread, perhaps the most common tree species across the states, native to 35.
Pretty view of a beautiful tree.
Thank you, Tom!
Super, and I’m glad you left a link to the Sunderland tree. I never knew about it. Spring trip coming up.
Worth the trip. 🙂 and if you walk around the corner onto the bridge that crosses the CT river, and look upriver, about 1/4 mile up on the right side is the sycamore holding the eagle nest. Fingers crossed they are there this year. And then you can drive over the river to Sugarloaf Mtn. on the right for its fabulous views of the valley. 👍🏼 🙂
Such a pretty tree with the light!
Thank you, Dawn!
Beautiful tree.
Thank you, Eunice!
I love the bare branches of a tree against the sky. Leaves hide all that beauty.
Agreed, the sycamore is particularly beautiful unadorned. 🙂
Nice photo – I do love branches against a nice blue sky. I had a sycamore in my front yard in Wilbraham, and I cursed that tree every fall. Its huge leaves made a 2 foot deep blanket on my front yard, that I cleaned every year with no help from my ex.
Yes, they can produce a lot of leaves! Ours are all along the river… no clean up required. 🙂
They are such magnificent trees…I know of 2 huge, old ones, near here.
They really are, and a favorite in the winter landscape. 🙂