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Thanks, I had always wondered if they might be confused!
BYW, congrats on the Wyandotte coop. It's a good feeling to get birds into their new home.
I just went out to find Ian and the youngest red calf in a deadly stare-down, with Ian complaining vocally over the incursion. It's so wonderful not to move that huge pile of wet wood, hardware cloth and plastic sheeting!
The Eastern Red Oaks are a problem in many ways- besides not dropping leaves, they're really sidewalk killers, they grow to 75-100 ft which is, of course, a problem with any urban tree, and they rot at the drop of a hat. There's a memorial planting of them down Legion Way in Olympia, one for every Washington resident killed in World War I: in the late seventies they were all topped because they interfered with power lines which had been installed after the trees were planted. The city should have taken them out and replanted with something more appropriate for the climate and location (like, say, that wonderful 25 foot maximum Magnolia grandifolia cultivar that Briggs developed, and which they'd offered to donate), but instead they're rehabilitating all but the ten trees that had rotted right down to ground level. Nobody gains except Asplund.
One of my pet peeves is when they polar all the trees in the grocery store parking lots and where ever. It's a travesty! If they are going to do that why plant the trees in the first place! They are sooo ugly and the poor trees suffer, I'm sure, because they are never allowed to grow the way nature intended. Just a bunch of stumps with sticks. They should just have a bunch of shrubs.
Thanks, I had always wondered if they might be confused!
BYW, congrats on the Wyandotte coop. It's a good feeling to get birds into their new home.
I just went out to find Ian and the youngest red calf in a deadly stare-down, with Ian complaining vocally over the incursion. It's so wonderful not to move that huge pile of wet wood, hardware cloth and plastic sheeting!
The Eastern Red Oaks are a problem in many ways- besides not dropping leaves, they're really sidewalk killers, they grow to 75-100 ft which is, of course, a problem with any urban tree, and they rot at the drop of a hat. There's a memorial planting of them down Legion Way in Olympia, one for every Washington resident killed in World War I: in the late seventies they were all topped because they interfered with power lines which had been installed after the trees were planted. The city should have taken them out and replanted with something more appropriate for the climate and location (like, say, that wonderful 25 foot maximum Magnolia grandifolia cultivar that Briggs developed, and which they'd offered to donate), but instead they're rehabilitating all but the ten trees that had rotted right down to ground level. Nobody gains except Asplund.
One of my pet peeves is when they polar all the trees in the grocery store parking lots and where ever. It's a travesty! If they are going to do that why plant the trees in the first place! They are sooo ugly and the poor trees suffer, I'm sure, because they are never allowed to grow the way nature intended. Just a bunch of stumps with sticks. They should just have a bunch of shrubs.
