trees
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Leaves
Bud-break in the case of the Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera) is more of a peel. If you look closely here, you can see the first tiny leaves of the year. Also last year’s dried-out fruits, cone-like conglomerations of samaras with a central spike. Here’s another look at a bud with leaf:
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Springing All The Sudden
This is the time of year when spring rushes in and overwhelms: your blogger ends up with a full heart and full camera and not enough days in the week.Silhouettes of Cedar Waxwings amidst the blooming maple. More Acer.Amongst the many signs (and sighs) of spring, the Eastern Phoebe’s pumping tail surely ranks near the…
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Sunset Park Elm ~ Breaking
A reddish tinge about the great tree means that the buds have started to break.Just barely anyway. For a fine old specimen, it’s low swooping arm — how has it survived generations of hangers-on? — means you can get unusually close.These photos were taken yesterday on my lunch break. It was in the high 50s.I’ve…
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One Tough Naturehood
At 4th Avenue and 38th Street, where the D train curves towards Coney and emerges down below for two-cars length of light, this enormous sign has lately appeared. Subway cut-friendly Ailanthus, Paulownia, and Norway Maple: my neighborhood has trees, but let’s be real, some trees do not a forest make. It’s definitely got “naturehood,” though…
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Hearts of Wood
A number of trees in Green-Wood have been cut down. Looks like a contractor has come through and limbed up some and take out some others. There are a lot of stories to be read in the remaining stumps. This is an older cut. Somebody is using it as a butcher block for acorns.
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Another Sunset Park Elm
Knots, galls, cankers? Whatever is going on here makes for a massive bole. This is one of a pair in front of an apartment named Elmo…