trees
This would explain why our lights and cable flickered
By adamg - 8/28/11 - 10:19 am
The scene outside our Roslindale house around 11:10 a.m.
Trees are, of course, falling all over the place (sometimes on houses - see this house on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury). If you still have Internet service, you can listen to all the calls over the Boston Fire Department's frequency here.
The loss of an old friend
By adamg - 5/26/11 - 8:36 amOn a recent visit to his old Woodbourne haunts in Jamaica Plain, Mike Ball was surprised to see the Norway maple in what was once his front yard gone, on order of the city tree warden:
It gave us many beautiful views and considerable shade. We planted and tended to flowers around it in the tree zone I custom built to accommodate its protruding roots. My sons used one side of it to support a makeshift snow slide during some of our blizzards. Many songbirds made homes in its branches and a hole high above the streets.
Citizen complaint of the day: Dead Trees
By lex.galloway - 3/11/11 - 12:43 pmFiled on Citizens Connect today from Paisley Park:
Three old dead trees falling down polluting the st. and denying cars.
From the photo they don't look like too much of annoyance, but maybe you just had to be there.
The Back Bay stinks
By adamg - 6/9/10 - 7:42 amPenny Cherubino reports the stink trees of the Back Bay are in full stench - a couple weeks earlier than last year.
The dead trees of Allston
By adamg - 6/14/09 - 12:37 pmHarry Mattison reports:
Harvard planted approximately 150 street trees on Western Avenue in 2007 and it is amazing how many of them are now dead or far from flourishing. ...
Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.
Looks like Dutch Elm Disease is back in Back Bay
By adamg - 6/1/09 - 11:24 amPenny Cherubino posts a photo of an ailing elm tree at Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. that appears to have the classic signs of the killer fungus spread by beetles.
Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.
The dying trees of South Boston
By adamg - 5/31/09 - 7:52 amSusan Labandibar is seeing a lot of dead and dying trees these days and wonders why:
... Young trees, even trees over twenty years old, are dying at an incredible rate. What does the Parks Department think? It looks like most of the street trees they are planting are not surviving. ...
With a Google map showing the location of all the dead trees on her dog-walking route.
Free trees for Boston residents
By adamg - 3/23/09 - 9:36 pmCandelaria Silva reports that Grow Boston Greener will be giving away trees to Bostonians with a place to plant them in May:
... The trees are 6-8' tall and come in containers. GBG asks each new tree steward to fill out a site evaluation form which is a brief survey of the growing conditions specific to your yard area so staff can help match the right tree to the right place. Trees need to be planted within a week of receipt and watered once a week for two full growing seasons (April through October) to establish well and grow into the future. ...
Joyce Kilmer to Davis Square, stat!
By adamg - 11/12/08 - 3:29 pmVegetarian zombies walk among us
By adamg - 8/24/08 - 12:06 pmFor the past several weeks, there's been this amazing brain-like fungus growing on the side of a tree on the VFW Parkway southbound, just past LaGrange. Every time I drove past, I thought it would make a great photo and vowed to stop next time. This morning, around 9:30, I saw the brain and vowed to stop on my way back (from Millennium Park). Around 10:30, I did - only to discover that in the interim, a vegetarian zombie (what else could it be?) had ripped the brain to shreds:
That'll teach me to put things off, right?
