Modern Photos trees 12:39
It is remarkable how some trees will manage to grow and adapt!
Surprisingly, these two maples aren’t that old: c. 1940 at the earliest.
This Black Birch is particularly interesting; the horizontal section is the original stem, when the stone it was growing over rotated (or it rotated the stone) the tree was forced to change direction by ninety degrees. It is possible that the extreme angle of the elbow was encouraged by cutting or other damage, since the surrounding area was logged.
Landscapes and Modern Photos 20:45
Framing by apple tree. Or, where we will not be planting a tree anytime soon!
It is remarkable how green things are, even without any rain (we are severely short for this area, spring drought seems to be a recurring pattern, which is making me ponder long term planting locations). The suddenness of the new growth is always surprising.
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gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos cercis canadensis, gardening 19:42
of the house….
I have featured the apple trees for a few posts. They are on the west side of the house; but on the east side:
Cercis canadensis, also known as Redbud.
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gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos apple trees, gardening, photography 21:17
Pink!
Last year the apple and crab-apple trees in this area failed almost completely. This year not so much
Intermezzo: the skunk just walked past…oh my God!
Windows now closed.
Anyway, lovely smelling apple trees here:
You can see, bottom right, a bit of white? That is a new apple tree, one of the two Golden Delicious that we just planted. The non-blooming one actually, finally, has a few blossoms and is a Prairie Spy. Up by the kitchen there is a Spigold. To the left is the Wolf River. Not visible is the big old McIntosh. Also not visible is the white crabapple.
The little bit of pink is an azalea.
For scale that building is a perfectly good story and a half.
Where IS that skunk?!
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Esperanza and gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, northwest Connecticut, photography 19:21
It would seem likely that I am making apple sauce this fall (the solid mass of white is a Wolf River apple!)
A good year for apples, this is one of the crab-apples
Looking back up at the Wolf River. Spring was in a bit of a hurry this year, usually the big Spirea hasn’t leafed out while the King Alfred Daffodils are still going, a bit of a clash of yellows there…
That crab-apple again and a window.
East lawn: Redbuds, Saucer Magnolia, Daffodils, and tulips
gardening and Modern Photos daffodils, photography 20:41
Amazing how the sun angle changes the colors!
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gardening and Modern Photos daffodils, gardening 20:22
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gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, northwest Connecticut, photography 20:35
around the place, widdershins as seems typical, from a few days ago, at this time of the year things change so quickly that these are now out of date:
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gardening and Modern Photos connecticut wildlife 20:31
While contemplating our big Cucumber Magnolia for some troubling die-back*, I noticed something odd. At first, I thought it was an ambitious woodpecker. This was worrisome since ambitious woodpeckers mean ill trees. But, when I put my hand against the marks, my nails fit the marks….
The red mark on trunk is about six and a half feet above the ground. You can see some other scrapes on the trunk to the bottom right.
Here is another mark, on the other side of the tree. The spacing is roughly an inch in between slashes. The sets of slash marks are roughly paired, and about four feet apart, climbing the tree.
No guesses?
It would appear that one of our local bears climbed the tree in the last few days. I agree with them that it is a lovely tree to hang out in, nice big horizontal branches, a good view, and all….but!
* It is officially #16 on the Connecticut Notable tree list for size, but may have moved up the list since the measurement. The tree is probably the most central tree in our landscape, so any dead branches are worrisome.
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gardening and Modern Photos daffodils, photography 20:13
It snowed!
Still we will get there. A photo from last year, I wish it was a bit sharper, but rather fun nevertheless.
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