Georgia over at the local ecologist writes about trees and street trees and urban trees a lot. She had a post on The Tree Year…choose a favorite tree and follow it for a year. I thought…hmmm…yes, good idea. Unfortunately I can’t choose just one tree but most of my favorites are the old oaks still […]
Category: Trees
Mourning a tree…and DIY
My neighbors had a tree taken out today and it always makes me sad to lose a tree…now that I’ve attained a certain age and can never live to see them grow really big. It was a walnut, covered in ivy, blocking sun fom other trees, but–habitat…there’s a LOT of livestock here in the central […]
Road Trip…Port Townsend
I took a little jaunt to Port Townsend this week for a good visit with old friends. Of course the first place we went when we left town was…yes..the carwash… and then a quick stop at TJ’s to get some pancetta and snap a spring photo before heading north. We stopped briefly to collect Vickie […]
A Salem sort of day…
Today, after a tiny but delicious lunch R made before heading to the beach, I got checking the Salem Blogs. Emily, over at Desperately Seeking Salem, was talking about cherry blossoms so later…on my drive-about…I went to check them out remembering how annoyed I was when they cut down all the walnut trees in the […]
City Ephemera…
Dashed to Portland today for a couple of errands…no time even for coffee…but here were a few observations: Spring is here on Caruthers Street…a flame maple heads toward summer. Some artists have a more casual approach to storing their artwork: the diorama contest at Beulah Land is fun:
Oregon Spring…
You want to know how gray and rainy it is here? (and then YOU say “How gray and rainy is it?”) THIS is NOT a black and white photo and was taken mid-afternoon…eek… Weatherman says maybe a little sun tomorrow…we’ll be blinded!
Making a Difference…(and the historic perspective)
Luke Westphal and Caprielle Barlow both graduated from Willamette University last spring…she in bio/chem, he in environmental science. For his senior thesis project Luke designed an area in the ODOT right of way under the Mission Street fly-over in which his idea was to rid the creek bank of the invasive species growing there (mostly […]
Goodbye Laurel Tree…
John and Paul are here today and tomorrow “clearing the site” for the new “garden shed”. We had to remove a badly overgrown laurel tree (it was a 3 foot high shrub when we moved here in 1980) and it is a bit of a shock…here’s the “BEFORE” the “during” and…gulp…the “after”:
Progress!!!
I was looking for a particular photo the other day, and ran across this one. The year is 1993 and that year Roger Hull (here on the left), Marcia Hoak and a merry band of volunteers spearheaded the planting of trees along State Street between 14th and 17th in a program they called State Street […]
Lord & Schryver & the Plane Trees, Chapter 2
Yesterday Sharon and I were doing some preparatory file sifting as we begin the process of mounting a show next year at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art that will feature the drawings of Edith Schryver. Schryver was one half of the landscape design team of Lord & Schryver, active in this region from 1928 […]
On The Way 