Catalpa

A catalpa in full bloom in Highbridge Park.

More CP Trees

Black locust and devils-walking-stick, with its big compound leaves (up to five feet long), very prickly; this particular one is fenced in to prevent the tots from harpooning themselves. But how will they learn?

CP Trees

Golden Larch and black tupelo.

Ned Barnard

I was in Central Park today on an epic walk with Edward Sibley Barnard. That's him in the background showing off the smooth almost-beech like bark of a hackberry. Real nice guy. A good twenty people on the walk, including this guy, who wrote the book on 'shrooms. Followed by pics of shingle oak and and English oak at Pilgrim Hill, more or less at 72nd &5th.

My backyard

Swamp White Oak

Quercus bicolor on Washington Avenue. We pruned three of the lower branches today and mulched the pit.

Typical Brooklyn Scene

In the BBG. The low resolution of this image in no way represents the cloudy day purple of these flowers.