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Bald Cypress - Fall 2025 Lake Chatuge |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Bald Cypress - Fall 2025 Lake Chatuge |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| When I photographed the October 2024 aurora borealis, I'd seen a stand of Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) along the lake shore. I later recalled that I had seen them at several other places around Lake Chatuge. They are not native to this part of Georgia, and were likely originally planted by the TVA. They are a deciduous conifer, and grow in the water when the lake is at summer pool. I had wanted to photograph them in 2024 when the needles changed color, but forgot all about it until it was too late. My timing was better this year, although with the dull overcast skies, my photos weren't the most vibrant. I'll need to try again with better lighting. October 28, 2025 |
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| Some of the Cypress trees were still green, others were nicely colored, and some had already dropped their needles. |
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| The trees here grow along the edge of a cove, although they have wet feet in the summer. |
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| View across the cove between two cypress trees... one still green and the other with nice color. |
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| Nice foliage color on some of the hardwoods across the cove. |
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| Bald Cypress |
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| These images are more or less in order as I walked around the shorelone. |
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| There was a lot of variation in color progress even on individual trees. |
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| Bald Cypress |
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| Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) |
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| Cypresses on the right, hardwoods across the cove on the left. |
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| Bald Cypress |
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| A line of Cypress trees on the right. |
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| Bald Cypress |
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| The trunks of this species are very distinctive. |
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| A pair of Cypress |
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| A pretty trio |
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| Nice color! |
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| An example of Cypress knees |
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| These woody "bumps" grow upward from the Cypress' roots. |
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| Bald Cypress |
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| Taxodium distichum |
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| Cypress cones |
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| October 31, 2025 A few days later, I was up on Tuni Gap Rd. photographing more fall foliage. On my way home, I re- visited the Bald Cypress, since the late afternoon sun was lighting the trees like they were on fire. |
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| Vibrant colored needles and a glimpse of the moon rising to the right of the tree... |
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| A trio of Bald Cypress trees |
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| Another threesome... |
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| View through a Cypress tunnel at more Cypress on the opposite shore. |
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| Back-lit color |
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| One last Bald Cypress photo |