tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post406125520294867321..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: Missed By That MuchBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-16894675474214579492016-02-26T22:10:12.855-05:002016-02-26T22:10:12.855-05:00That storm flooded the basement in D.C. (I was in ...<i>That storm flooded the basement in D.C. (I was in Virginia at the time).</i><br /><br />Ugh, hope you got things cleaned up. Few things are worse than flooding.<br /><br /><i>Hard to tell due to resolution issues. At a glance it could be a maple. It has that gnarling you see around the base of some maple trunks (usually a Norway), but it has that more vertically inclined bifurcation which you don't tend to see in a Norway, but do see in silver maples. The wood color is consistent with a maple. It's growing in a wetland -- so my guess would be a silver maple.</i><br /><br />Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a maple. I really have to pay more attention to the general ruck of trees. Each of our sites has a couple of signature trees (a monster maple at my usual site, a giant sycamore at another one, and a cottonwood at the third). I pay more attention to the edible stuff- I know where all of the mulberry, cherry, apple, pear, and quince trees are, and the solitary peach tree). We have a lot of locusts and willows at one site, and a lot of oak and tulip trees at another site. I gotta bone up on my dendrology as well.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-8585354907624498342016-02-26T12:55:37.289-05:002016-02-26T12:55:37.289-05:00Hard to tell due to resolution issues. At a glanc...Hard to tell due to resolution issues. At a glance it could be a maple. It has that gnarling you see around the base of some maple trunks (usually a Norway), but it has that more vertically inclined bifurcation which you don't tend to see in a Norway, but do see in silver maples. The wood color is consistent with a maple. It's growing in a wetland -- so my guess would be a silver maple.<br /><br />Then again I'm not a dendrologist.<br /><br />Anyway, it's a shame.swkellogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06282997501489101503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-79130367309948228592016-02-26T09:49:10.425-05:002016-02-26T09:49:10.425-05:00That storm flooded the basement in D.C. (I was in ...That storm flooded the basement in D.C. (I was in Virginia at the time).<br /><br />Got to sweep up the leaves on the stairs every once in a while...<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.com