The Tulip Tree Out Front

The Tulip Tree out front was slow to change color this year. Liriodendron is in the Magnolia family

l’m told they grow up to sixty feet tall, which I probably won’t see, but it’s a lovely tree.

I lost my 90+ year old Sycamore in 2002. I’d gotten a second opinion that it had to be taken down. a living thing that had come to the end of its life. I filled out a request for a new tree and the city planted this one.

It’s growing straight up it seems to me. The sky was blue today and made a perfect backdrop for the changing leaves.

The tree today

The tree on Tuesday

Lovely shaped leaves two weeks ago.

November 6, 2019 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn, City tree, leaves, Liriodendron, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, Tulip Tree, weather 8 Comments

Silent Sunday

November 17, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, silent SundayTags: autumn, leaf, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, silent Sunday, snow, still life, Tulip Tree, weather 8 Comments

Before the snow began

It just takes some getting used to. The new season. It changed this morning. We like the changing seasons, right?

This chilly icy, now tonight, snowy weather.

So hard on the trees, though. The driving.

Getting cozy by adding covers, readying for hibernation, thinking about making pots of chili, soup. Boiling the kettle for tea. Oh yes, keep on knitting a wooly sweater.

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November 15, 2018November 17, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: autumn, fall, ice, icicles, photography, Pittsburgh Photos, postaday, seasons, snow, soup, trees, Tulip Tree, weather 10 Comments

The City Planted a Tulip Tree

Ten years ago, I lost the giant sycamore in front of my house. It must have been 100 years old. I even called in a tree doctor to see if it could be saved. It was a sad loss when in was cut down. I applied for a new tree through the city,

Last Saturday, volunteers planted a new tree in front- Liriodendron Tulipifera. A tulip tree. A yellow poplar. The leaves are the shapes of tulips. It is a beautiful looking tree and I am so grateful to have it planted. I read it is the state tree of Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee and may grow to 170 feet tall.

Email instructions arrived on how to water it deeply by using a big bucket with holes in the bottom and how to not put mulch touching the bark so fungus doesn’t grow on the bark are a couple of tips.

Does anyone remember the television commercial encouraging the planting of trees? There was a quote – It’s a mature man who plants a tree under whose shade he will never sit. I looked it up and all I could find is a Greek proverb…

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

How about my crop of dandelions?

May 1, 2013May 1, 2013 by Ruth Categories: Garden, PhotographyTags: city, gardening, greek proverb, nature, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, sidewalk, Spring, tree planting, Tulip Tree 18 Comments

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The Tulip Tree Out Front

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