A Great Big Beauty

Of course, it's big. It's the Official State Tree of Texas, the Pecan:

This particular pecan tree is so big it didn't all fit in the frame even with an 18 mm wide angle lens. These three photos only give an idea of the height of this tree and the width of its canopy. There really isn't any true sense of the diameter of the trunk, either. Pecans grow very well in the riparian woods here, so it is difficult to estimate the age of the tree by its size, however I think it is safe to say this is a fairly old pecan tree.

This set of photographs was taken along the Yanaguana Nature Trail at Mission San Juan in the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park on Monday, October 28, 2013.