Redbud

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April 10:

April 17:

April 23:

Japanese maple

The Japanese maple has leaves and samaras.

A walk in the park

I took a day off work today.  I was going to work on my radio show and de-clutter my house, but instead I went for a walk in the park.  I saw grackles, robins, a goldfinch, a bluebird, tufted titmice, and lots of trees, including the following:

Horsechestnut:

Sycamore:

Oak:

 Sugar maple:

Locust:

Magnolia:

Samara in progress

Really cool sight on a Norway maple today: it looks like the samaras are in the process of being formed.

Dogwood

There is a dogwood tree on campus near the H Building.

Leafy

The crabapple leaves have been out for a month, and other leaves have been emerging for a few weeks, but mostly, trees have had baby leaves.  Today I noticed some trees that were really looking leafy, as if they might even provide some shade.

This is a Norway maple to the north of Amos Eaton.  Some other Norway maples are not this far along yet.

And this is the sycamore maple north of Amos Eaton.  The sycamore maple on the hill is nowhere near this far along.  You would think that the trees to the north side of a building would be less far along than those in an open field, but such is not the case.

And here are two photos of the horsechestnut behind Amos Eaton.

I think Pete Donzelli's tree is a slippery elm

For nearly two years, I have been seeing Pete Donzelli's tree there and not knowing what it was.  "How can I figure it out?" I wondered.  Usually The Sibley Guide to Trees is good, but it helps to have a general idea of what kind of tree it might be, so you know what section to look in.  What could this be? I think it looks like an elm.  I turned to the elm section of  The Sibley Guide to Trees, and there it was, a picture of this tree, and it was a slippery elm.  I've known elm for a year and a half, how could I have missed it? Maybe the elms I have known were American elm.