An impressive number of trees were blown down or fractured by winds in our recent season of storms, as gusts reportedly reached hurricane force in many places. The trees fell according to their nature; shallow-rooted red maples in low-lying swamps tended to uproot entirely, raising great, shaggy, vertical disks of roots into the air. Oaks, stronger and more deeply rooted, did not succumb as often, or if they did, showed that they were weakened by inner decay. But it was the pitch pines that suffered most. In A Cape Cod Notebook, Robert Finch contemplates the storms' reordering of the landscape, and human resourcefulness in accepting these changes.