Sitting at my keyboard this morning, I see a beautiful sight peeking from above my monitor. Our neighbors across the street, with several others along our street, planted an ornamental pear tree in their front yard. During the spring, I don't much care for those trees. They are too symmetrical, too uniformly flowered, too stinky; but, they come into their own in Autumn. Unlike the other types of trees around here (which you may have noted are bare in the Sunrise photos), the pear trees are still hanging onto their leaves--despite the high winds that we've experienced for most of the last couple of weeks. Aaaahhhh!
Magnificent!!!!!
Did those high winds head east and bring the snow that was covering my lil' red car and my sidewalks this morning? LOL
Posted by: Kay Dennison | November 18, 2008 at 12:58 PM
It is really gorgeous!
Posted by: kenju | November 18, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Kay--The winds must have. Sorry about that!
All--It was really thoughtful of our neighbors to see that I had a tree to look at. I'm nearly certain that the tree was there when we started building this house (Spring 1999). Since we centered our house on what is platted as two lots, I get to look at the tree rather than someone's front door!
I'm considering planting a Washington hawthorn. We had one at our last house and it was gorgeous in the fall, and had berries for the birds. Just have to figure out where (without HH beating me for planting another tree! Well...that'll be the day. HH can be very forceful, verbally; but, he isn't one who even considers physical force!)
Posted by: Cop Car | November 19, 2008 at 04:55 PM