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Sad to see this wonderful tree come down, but as one of the tree guys said when looking at the job: “it’s got a lot of problems”. Not the least of which was a huge branch (on the right in the photo) leaning toward the house, and more importantly, the backside of that branch with a substantial amount of bark loss and signs of an insect infestation at its base. The tree offered the best dappled shade, though, courtesy of its small leaf structure, and a sparse canopy.

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I asked a guy who was chopping wood nearby if he knew what kind of tree this was. He said “Well my fifth-grade daughter once did a report on it, and ID’ed it as a charter oak, or a white oak”. Good enough for me.

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Midwinter, Old Saybrook, CT

January 26, 2020

Pare Everything Down To Almost Nothing

then cut the rest

and you’ve got

the poem

I’m trying to write.

David Budbill

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Taken out in our backyard in Ivoryton, when the small forest of blue spruce trees I planted some ten years previous had grown to an average height of seven-eight feet. Now they’re probably triple that size.

*Here’s a nice version of the Christmas carol, also known as O Tannenbaum; it’s based on an old German folk song.

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Ice Storm, Old Saybrook, CT

December 17, 2019

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That’s Pico off in the distance.

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The CT River, Old Saybrook, CT

September 21, 2019

The CT River dumps into Long Island Sound over at the far right. This tree trunk, probably six feet wide at the bottom of the roots, arrived some three years ago.

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The Khousa Dogwoods (Cornus Khousa) have been spectacular along the coast this year, where Spring has been on the cool and rainy side. I don’t remember a year with blossoms so magnificent and the trees looking so healthy. There’s a particularly nice stretch heading west out of the center of Madison, where a number of stately colonials provide a backdrop.

This hasn’t so much been the case with other dogwoods; I notice the pink and reddish flowered ones (Cherokee Brave/Cherokee Princess – Cornus Florida) have hardly flowered at all, and have long since gone by.

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