Sycamore
Magnificent, isn't it? I'd axe this sycamore if it wasn't so impressive. Each day a fresh round of bark, branches, leaves and seeds blankets the surrounding ground. I marvel that there's anything left standing.
posted by Happy In Bag @ 9:34 AM
5 Comments:
At 11:53 AM,
Rick in PV said…
Can't be as bad as the hackberries covering my back porch, sticking to shoes, being tracked inside, etc. That tree is so ugly, too! If it weren't for the shade it provides ...
At 5:31 PM,
mike t. said…
back in the 90's, i bought a house in leawood south, since sold. i loved the two large trees in the front yard, and a smaller similar tree on the side yard. in two seasons i learned what they were, and like you found them raining down year-round HUGE leaves (usually brown), twigs and bark. thy name was sycamore and i hated them. heck, they didn't even change to a pretty color in the fall, and IN the fall, they really fell. six-inch diameter leaves, mind you. i hated those things. i can relate.
At 7:37 PM,
Ruralgurl said…
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At 7:38 PM,
Ruralgurl said…
Sycamores. They always grow best by water. Settlers dug wells near them. River banks are full of them leaning over the water, rope swings bekoning. Stark white arms reach into the deepening blue sky of autumn, yet they never look embarrassed in their nakedness. Only brave. Rake the leaves, jump into the pile, play like a child. Then gaze from your crunchy brown bed into the sky and sigh. It is autumn, again.
At 4:21 PM,
Happy In Bag said…
Best comments ever. Thanks.
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