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2011: The Year In Trees
Marvin and Sherry clued me in to this interesting project, The Tree Year. Here’s how it works: How to start: Pick a tree – either one you like a lot or one that you see every day on your way to work or...
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Ice Storm, Iowa, 1954
Here are more surprises from my mom’s box of Kodachrome slides. 1954 is a guess–my parents lived in this house from about 1952 to 1956. You can see why southwestern Iowa winters are so hard on trees.
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State of the Sumac–January 2011
Here’s my latest post for The Tree Year. (I think Das Baumjahr has a better ring to it…I may switch.) The sun came out to make the trees sparkle this afternoon, so I thought it would be a good time to...
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Late Winter Sumac–2011 Tree Year
Yesterday’s sky did not promise spring, and this morning we had snow and sleet. Robins have been visiting the sumac fruits, but the main customers there are our red-bellied woodpeckers. Lately, they...
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Dormancy–2011 Tree Year
It’s snowing again today, and the sumac buds are tight shut still. Like other smooth-barked tree species here, the sumacs have lots of lovely lichens.
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Snowy Setback–2011 Tree Year
After several warm days that made the lilac and rose bushes pop new leaves, winter weather returned. This is the same snowstorm that caught Sherry on her way home from West Virginia. Bourbon County...
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Tree Year 2011 Recap: Sumac Season
My blogging habit crashed and burned last year, but I continued to take sumac pictures for Tree Year 2011, at least until summer’s dry weather killed the small trees I was photographing. I waited...
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An End to Peaches
2011 was a sadly inauspicious year for trees on our ridge. The stag-horn sumac trees did not fare well in the summer, and this happened in the spring. This poor peach tree has been struggling for...
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