The ground under them, deep and spongy with brown needles, supported no grass.

Spread out before them was more of the same-sparse growth sprouting among the thick bed of brown needles.

The ground underfoot was covered with a carpet of fine brown needles.

It has a thick trunk and healthy branches with just a few spots near the top with brown needles.

I pictured myself lying under the pines on a floor of brown needles.

The ground was covered with a soft bed of pine needles, brown and fragrant.

All evergreens will shed some brown needles, but fresh trees drop only a few green ones.

Check for trees with no brown needles.

They spread the sleeping bag out on the damp ground, which was covered with brown needles.

Now there was nothing but an indentation in the brown needles.