Photo by John HoffIf I write something erroneous, I do go back and try to correct it. Some time ago I wrote how the amazing antique $7,900 house of Connie Nompelis (No-buhl-iss, it's Greek) came with a dead tree needing to be sawed up for firewood.
Well, it turns out the tree was something of a late bloomer. Though it looked dried up and dead, even as the other trees were springing to life, now it turns out the tree is alive and merely needing some large dead branches trimmed away.
Also, I'm no longer positive it's an apple tree. I'm not sure what it is, anymore, though I've decided it's NOT an apple tree.
Of course, the part of me that believes in magical and miraculous things prefers to believe the tree was indeed dead when I judged it to be dead, but some positive new spirit has brought the tree back to life, the same positive spirit which appears to be bringing rebirth, revitalization, and reclamation to our neighborhood every day.
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6 comments:
I have late budding tree in my yard also. Someone told me it was possibly a mulberry. It produces a berry somewhat like a raspberry, and birds, especially robins, are drawn to it.
Yeah that certainly sounds like a Mulberry.
I don't think the one in my yard is though... I know Mulberry leaves and these don't look like that. May have to get a book of trees to identify this thing.
The leaves remind me of apple leaves, but it's clearly NOT an apple. Hmmmm.
Any husks of giant foot-long brown bean-pod-looking things in the yard? We have one of those bean pod trees and it finally just leafed out a few weeks ago.
Maybe this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa
Trust me, whatever that tree is, it ISN'T a catalpa.
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