Campus officials said they are happy that their strategy to get the tree-sitters to leave seems to be successful.

CNN: In Oak Grove, three tree-sitters remain

In other photos, a wreath in the shape of a Christmas tree dangles above highway construction, and a "Happy Holidays" banner casts its shadow on a highway empty except for a single truck.

WSJ: rom Lee Friedlander at Janet Borden Gallery

"Happy birthday to me, " I said to the ripening chestnut tree in the front yard, not yet knowing that the gifts I would receive that day would make me agree to return, reluctantly and to protect sacred secrets, to the grief-breathing place of childhood, to the Seaboro River.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Between the Tides'