Trees

A Charlie Brown Christmas in Franklin Park

By adamg - 12/25/24 - 10:54 pm

Small pine tree in Franklin Park decorated with a single ornament

The Boston LOL spotted this small tree decorated with a single ornament in Franklin Park.

Gazing long into the abyss in the snow at Mount Auburn Cemetery

By adamg - 12/21/24 - 11:40 pm

Orb in the snow at Mount Auburn Cemetery

Our own Swirlygrrl attended Solstice, an annual winter show at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge last night. Read more.

A time to plant and a time to uproot

By adamg - 11/27/24 - 10:38 am

Workers preparing to uproot dying tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond

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Anya Levy Guyer was at Jamaica Pond this morning when workers began setting up to take down one of the pond's odder, but most beloved trees - the one that had long bent down toward the water, but which began dying late in 2022, a process that accelerated this year as the once narrow split in its trunk grew ever wider and the tree began to pitch itself ever lower into the water. Read more.

At the Arboretum, the role of Puff the Magic Dragon is played by Osage orange trees

By adamg - 11/18/24 - 10:30 am

Science IRL explains the ginormous Osage oranges (which are not actual oranges) that litter the ground at the Arboretum, waiting, like Puff for little Jackie Paper, for woolly mammoths that will never come again: Read more.

The survivor at the edge of the pond makes it through another year

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 2:31 pm

Grizzled old tree at Jamaica Pond still hanging on, if barely

Black void at the bottom is really a hollowed out trunk. See it larger.

The old leaning tree on the Pond Street side of Jamaica Pond didn't seem like it would make it this year - the crack in its trunk widened into a mini-cavern with enough space to support several families of squirrels and it tipped even more down toward the water, enough so that you could no longer use its outer branches to gauge just full the pond was. Read more.

Still tree by still water

By adamg - 11/3/24 - 8:11 pm

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A tree on the banks of Jamaica Pond, with the still green willow on the pond's one island, this afternoon.

Fall along the Charles

By adamg - 10/15/24 - 9:31 am

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Mary Ellen took a morning walk along the Charles in Millennium Park.

Calm, if brisk, fall morning along the Charles

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 10:44 am

Calm waters and fall trees along the Charles

Mary Ellen looked across the Charles from Millennium Park in West Roxbury at a copse of trees in Needham this morning.

Early fall in the Public Garden

By adamg - 9/19/24 - 10:11 am

Jack Cohen uses the same tree to show three faces of fall in the Public Garden.

Arboretum wants to replace parking spaces with trees at one Roslindale entrance

By adamg - 9/3/24 - 9:35 am

Map of proposed Walter Street gate improvement

Map showing proposed changes - blob at far left is now parking, will become a stand of trees, walkways

The Arnold Arboretum has filed plans to upgrade its Walter Street gate in Roslindale in part by replacing eight parking spaces with trees and improving the pedestrian paths along Bussey Brook near the entrance. Read more.

It's been awhile since a driver took out something large near Jamaica Pond

By adamg - 8/26/24 - 11:00 pm

Knocked over stone wall across from Jamaica Pond

On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.

Storm did a number on one tree in West Newton

By adamg - 8/15/24 - 6:52 pm

Remains of large tree being cut up in West Newton

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A roving UHub photographer watched a crew carve up a large tree knocked over in West Newton by this afternoon's storm.

I think that I shall never unsee, so much wood on the tracks to Braintree

By adamg - 8/9/24 - 10:17 pm

At 8:16 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays of up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree on the tracks near Quincy Center. At 8:34 p.m., the T reported bustitution between North Quincy and Quincy Center due to the Kilmerian obstruction. At 9:19 p.m., the T reported it had extended the shuttle service all the way to Braintree. As of 10:15 p.m., the T was reporting the Braintree branch was still blocked by that darned tree.

Too early

By adamg - 8/7/24 - 10:19 pm

Mary Ellen spotted a too early sign of fall the other day at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

Morning sundappling

By adamg - 7/3/24 - 9:51 am

Pine trees and grass in the sun at the Arnold Arboretum

Mark Smith shares the morning sun on pine trees and grass on the Peter's Hill side of the Arnold Arboretum.

Cambridge, pipeline company agree on plan to remove some trees on lot near city reservoir in Lincoln so company can install new equipment next door

By adamg - 6/13/24 - 12:03 pm

Map showing trees to be removed on the lot

Woodman, spare those trees, well, some of them. Map shows trees to be chopped (blue), saved if possible (red) and left alone (yellow).

Cambridge and Algonquin Gas Transmission today filed a plan that will let the pipeline company use part of a quarter-acre city parcel off Rte. 2 in Lincoln to haul in new equipment for a pipeline facility on the company's adjoining lot. Read more.

Cambridge asks judge to keep pipeline company from cutting down trees on city-owned land near its reservoir off Rte. 2

By adamg - 5/27/24 - 1:33 pm

Cambridge says a pipeline company that wants to cut down trees on a small city-owned parcel near the city reservoir on the Lincoln/Waltham line is disregarding the law, the rights of the town of Lincoln and the purity of Cambridge drinking water in its demand to use the parcel as a way to get heavy equipment to a neighboring lot for installation. Read more