ANOTHER GREEN HOLDOUT, AND "THE TREE PARTY"

CHEQUAMEGON BAY AT SUNSET, YESTERDAY

LITTLE LEAF LINDEN...

...LEAF

Tuesday,  9:00 AM. 19 degrees F, wind NW, brisk at times.  the sky is mostly cloudy but clearing, the humidity is 73% and the barometer is high, at 30.71".  It was cold enough this morning to wear cotton gloves while walking Buddy.
   Sunset yesterday gave us a bank of majestic pink-purple clouds over Chequamegon Bay.  The photo was taken looking south toward Ashland from Reiten Park.
   Another green hold-out has been this little-leaf linden tree, Tilia cordata, on the corner of 6th St. and Manypenny Ave.  The species name cordata refers to the somewhat heart-shaped leaves.  It is the European linden, as in unter den linden, and its leaves still being green supports my statement in yesterday's blog about trees of European origin not having  much if any fall color. I think.  Sort of, anyway.  Don't look for its green leaves today, though, as they dropped from the tree last night.  The tree was planted too close to the stop sign and requires annual pruning of the lower branches.
   We held our final City Tree Board meeting of 2013 yesterday morning.  We found a sunny table at the Big Water Coffee Shop, and were all in a cherrie mood.  Someone suggested that we should start our own political movement and call it the Tree Party, "the party with good roots."  Then we wondered what the party's members would be called, and we came up with Nuts, Knots, Leaves and Branches.  I think it more likely we would be called  Dead Wood. Anyway, we did eventually get some serious work done on revising the City Tree Ordinance.  We won't meet in December, and our next meeting will be the fourth Monday of January, 2014.