In the U.S.A.'s Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and other ranges in this time of warming climate, as well as in coastal old-growth forests that have been logged, we see many hundreds of uprooted, fallen trees alongside our hiking trails. Sometimes it's beetle-kill; sometimes it's fire; sometimes snow or rain has softened the ground enough to withdraw support; sometimes it's wind that brings them down. Once down, the trunks are more ephemeral than the roots, so over time, we are left with fantastic shapes reaching, dancing, some still holding the rocks that sheltered the seed that started the tree. Sometimes the foliage has died, but the tree is not yet prostrate, or sometimes the tree has been cut and carried away, leaving the stump and solidly embedded roots. This gallery is to honor all of that.