I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

However, aspen also has the ability to send up new young shoots, or suckers, off the root system of an established tree, sometimes ... which are camouflaged to look like rolled aspen leaves ...

Inspired by the dark “eyes” of the aspen tree — scars left behind on the trunks after the trees drop lower limbs that aren’t getting enough sunlight — the distinctive window designs in ...