The City of Salem is rolling out a new plan called “The State Street Corridor” …and to that end we attended a recent neighborhood meeting where we were to sit around some tables and “brainstorm”…and the idea of planting came up, and trash, and this reminded us of the “State Street Renewal” group of the […]
Tag: Trees
Tree Memorial…
Checked the tree status yesterday…two still standing, tree memorials intact…
Goodbye to a lovely old friend….
“Back in the day…” (1930 let’s say) our yard looked like this (the houses belonged to our neighbors) and when we bought the house in 1980 it looked like this…(and the red house is ours) and now it looks like this…with this addition to the rear of the house from 1995… and in the east […]
A Sad Moment…
Today in the paper there was an article about the loss of the amazingly beautiful old oak tree in the Lord and Schryver home garden. One arborist thinks the tree might have been over four hundred years old, growing long before this area was settled…probably part of the oak groves that covered the Willamette Valley. […]
These Trees
I haven’t always captured photos of these trees, but I have noticed the tendency people have to plant them against walls. Then the trees begin to grow and kind of groan and wail and dance and carry on. Have you seen them around?? They begin to have personalities sort of. The five on the left […]
On The Way 