cedar elm
This is one of the cedar elms (Ulmus crassifolia) lining our street which are dropping the golden leaves I mentioned yesterday. They are really pretty nice trees. More vertical than horizontal so they don't produce a great deal of shade. Unfortunately they are infested with mistletoe and there is nothing that can be done about that.
This is actually the view directly south from our front porch. Across the street behind that other foliage was a very large wild area when we first moved here. Rumor was that a house there had burned years ago, killing the inhabitants and that the heirs intended it to remain unbuilt on forever. I am not sure any of that was true. There was an old foundation there; but the property was sold to a builder a couple years ago and now there is once again a very fine house there. It faces a different street so we can't really see it from here.
When it was a wild area it was popular with neighborhood kids. There were huge shrubs you could hide under in spaces as big as a small room. There was also a very nice stand of Eves' necklace, one of my very favorite small trees. They left a few of them standing.
