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One source of pleasantly warm fall foliage in Texas is the bald cypress, a deciduous tree that botanists know as Taxodium distichum. At a place called Jacob's Well in the town of Wimberley I found that a low branch of this young bald cypress had managed to snag the fluffy seed head of one of our most attractive native grasses, bushy bluestem, Andropogon glomeratus.

I've been involved with photography since the late 1960s, when I got my first real camera toward the end of my two years in Honduras as a Peace Corps math teacher. From the 1970s through the mid-1980s I went through a phase of black and white infrared photography, often even in 3-D. My current period began in 1999. Call me a nature photographer and you won't be wrong, but because there's not a lot of majestic scenery where I live (which is Austin, Texas), I've gotten interested in portraying the native plants of the region, especially our many wildflowers. Along with them come occasional butterflies, birds, and other small creatures. I often think of all these subjects, even the plants, as if they were posing for portraits, so you could...