Bumper crop this year

We have a pair of 40–50' White pine (“Pinus strobus”) trees and they have dropped a *lot* of needles and a *lot* of cones (megastrobili) this year. This is a randomly chosen cone. Hmm. Looks like a lot of pink at the bottom of the image. I don't know how to get rid of that in PS…

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Pinus_strobus&rank=binomial

1 year ago (“Schlumbergera”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-11-13
2 years ago (“Sunset on Cedar Lake”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-11-13
3 years ago (“Rowing shells!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-11-13

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[Danette Thompson]

Beautiful image!

[Rick Schies]

Very nice but can be a headacbhe