On Monday night Papa and I went to the University of
Colorado Campus at Boulder for a Tree Walk.
I am proud to say that this campus is one of the most beautiful in the
country. The Walk is done to see the fall colors as the trees change, but since
the temperatures here have been in the high 70's and low to mid 80's for the
better part of the fall there isn't a lot of color yet.
I don't know much about trees, so I can't identify most of
them - even though our guide pointed them out.
I will be posting some links for people who are interested in trees and
who want to try to identify those in my photos.
There are a couple of things worthy of note. For instance, the first four pictures are of
the oldest tree on campus. She was
planted in the late 1800's in front of the red brick structure that was the
first to house the University, Old Main. The fifth picture of the spidery yellow flower
amid badly faded leaves is the bloom of Witch Hazel's shrub-like small
tree. I had never seen her before in
real life and was interest to see her growing prolifically along the banks of a
little stream. Her flower emerges very
late in the season to avoid competing with other blooms for the attention of
pollinators.
It was a gracious evening.
The air was sweet and cool as it often is at the foot of the Mighty
Rockies in autumn’s dusk. Goddess graced us with the luscious beauty of many of
her children, still green-leafed for the most part, but fabulous all the same.
