Our walk to the village of Valbonne yesterday took us through parts of the Parc Départemental de la Brague, a large park of some 480 hectares (roughly 1,200 acres) with a typical Mediterranean vegetation (or so they say). The park gets as close as 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) to the sea, and it is located at an altitude of between 40 and 245 meters (130 to 800 feet). Since we can comfortably walk there from home, we are relatively frequent visitors (a dozen photographs of La Brague are posted on one of our web sites). Yesterday, we came across this beautiful tree; we suspect that it is a type of oak, but no doubt this can be confirmed or corrected by one of our regular readers  and resident botany experts from Basel or Liège. Well?