Overview and Wittering About Local Trees in Everyday Ramblings

I took this from the aerial tram on this day, six years ago. I must have been working or doing something for Mr. Finch, as I believe this was right after he had the brain surgery. It was certainly just a few weeks after his diagnosis and back then I wasn’t doing anything but working and taking care of stuff for him.

What is cool about this picture is that you can finally actually see what I am talking about when I say they tore down the main business district and put in through routes South.

That is the red cottage there on the corner behind the trees (the one I put up the picture of yesterday) with the turreted apartment building that was turned around next to it. I am happy to have this picture to give you some perspective of all this that I am describing in the writing.

I am going to sort all these pictures into a companion album but today what I was looking for was a picture of the flowering purple leaved plum that is on the corner by the house I am currently writing about and instead I found this one. It is really a beautiful tree but the fruit is messy.

There is a huge crab apple on the same block and I was talking to the renter in the cottage that has it and we were wondering how old that tree was. It also has incredibly messy fruit that gets everywhere.

There is another red leaved plum about seven blocks down much closer to where the house I am writing about used to be. :) I wonder if they were (or their progenitor trees were) brought from Italy. Someone I know has an Italian fig in her backyard and that is literally right across the street from where the former Mayor’s family house used to be.

It is amazing what one sees when one looks closely.

I am sure the offspring Mimosa trees that have sprung up on both sides of the toxic waste cleanup former gas station site down on the other corner will go when they start construction on the much dreaded low income housing structure.

Near where this picture is there is a huge (and I mean towering) old oak the neighbors were able to save that has it’s own corner lot. I went looking for it last week. I had walked by it, oh, well at least 20 times and never thought much about it. The lady that lives in what must have been a very expensive restoration of the corner house next door pointed it out to me when I was looking a bit puzzled standing in the middle of the street with my camera.

It is overcast and there is a cool wind. The cats have been wild boys today but are finally taking a break.

I just wanted to share the perspective picture.

I went out at lunch and took a picture of the red plum and mimosa so you can get a feel for scale. This is a two story house, not a cottage.

Last updated August 16, 2015