@Nancy Hart If you click a search titled "Boojum tree images", a zillion will come up. Many do not look at all like we remember them. I picked one which does, but it's much taller than the several we saw in the Arboretum. They were tapered too, but more sharply, like a Fir Christmas tree! Frank
Looks great, Nancy! Moose here also eat young trees, so sometimes you have to fence them out of an area you are trying to "reforest".
Unexpected turn of events at the Seniors Meetup last night---the Botanical Gardens hike. Nine people had been signed up online for several days. It looked like showers all day right up to start time. I signed up only about an hour before I left. Normally I wouldn't do that, but one had just dropped out, and there was no mention on the website of an upper limit, or a cut off time to sign up. When I got there, the organizer was visibly annoyed I was not on his list, but wrote my name down, after I told him someone had just cancelled. Then another new member showed up who hadn't signed up, and the organizer told him he couldn't join us. The man said he had raced back directly from a trip to Atlanta just to be there, but the answer was still, NO. Asked if he could just walk along with us, since it was a public park---No, it was after hours and the park was closed to regular visitors, he would have to leave, that the rules state there would have to be 2 group leaders with that many in one group. When the new guy left, I walked out with him. You had to be there, I guess. Decided to go instead to McDonald's. The dine-in area had just opened up again after installing those new self-serve order and pay stations. Better than waiting in line to order once you get the hang of it. I did some people watching, and a nice lady who worked there was very friendly. The atmosphere at McDonald's was much better.
Proud of you girl! You did the "right thing". Geez, they would not bend the rules just a little? Sounds like "Mr. Organizer" was a bit on the cranky side!
Thanks @Pam Sellers, but I really had no choice. I would have been cranky the whole time, if I had stayed, angry at myself mostly. All those hard feelings could have been so easily avoided by just a little planning ahead, especially for an outdoor event where the weather can be a factor. It will not stop me from joining another Seniors Meetup outing. I'll just avoid one organized by that particular person, at least for a while. By contrast the previous group meeting (no age restriction) was a very pleasant experience. I have been accused of overthinking things at times, but that's partly because the last 10+ years on my job I became what you might call a catastrophe avoider. I was in charge of organizing events that had at times up to 1400 attendees. You had to think ahead of all the things that could go wrong, and use common sense on the spur of the moment about bending rules. Even after 10 years something new would always pop up I didn't think of. lol
Nancy, I can see you as an Event Planner! You do think everything through even with home projects! LOL But it's a "good thing", be prepared for the worse and hope for the best!
A big limb already broke out of the pear tree. You can see it in this picture if you look closely. There are hundreds of little pears on the ground now. Rusty (the goat) loves them, even green. I cut off some of the good parts for him yesterday. What I didn't mention is that there is a beautiful old oak tree right behind the pear tree. The limbs are getting intertwined. The driveway will look really pretty with that pear tree gone.
@Pam Sellers, the bad thing about home projects is they don't have a deadline. I'm still fussing with a closet remodel that I started last fall. What I didn't count on, working in the summer, is the heat up under the roof. It must get up to 140 in the middle of the day up there. I either have to get up really early in the morning, or stay up all night to work in there now.
Hi Nancy! This is a famous tree that is down the road a piece from where I live. B https://www.co.seneca.ny.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Scythe-Tree-Story-ADA.pdf
Welcome to the forum @Beatrice Taylor. We have a famous tree here too---The Tree That Owns Itself. "According to legend, William Jackson supposedly cherished childhood memories of the (white oak) tree, and, desiring to protect it, deeded to it the ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. By various accounts, this transaction took place between 1820 and 1832." The original tree fell in 1942, but a new tree was grown from one of its acorns, and planted in the same location. The current tree is sometimes referred to as the Son of The Tree That Owns Itself. "No original deed has been found or located, but the people in the town recognize the tree’s ownership and have taken measures to protect it."