Sunday, December 31, 2023
The new reasonably mild seasonal weather of December continued. Although a hike in an arboretum may not make sense in the winter, it still provided photo ops.
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The Haverford College Nature Trail is 2.2 miles around the perimeter of the campus |
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Sinuous tree branching |
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Picea abies/Norway Spruce is native to Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe |
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Pinus wallichiana/Himalayan White Pine is native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from Afghanistan to southwest Chima |
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Chamaecyparis obtusa/Hinoki Cypress is native to central Japan |
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Platycladus orientalis/Oriental Arborvitae is native to northeastern parts of Asia |
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Pinus cembra/Swiss Stone Pine is found in the Alps, Carpathian and Tatra Mountains |
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Pinus densiflora/Japanese Red Pine is native to East Asia |
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The pedestrian bridge over E Railroad Avenue was closed |
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Bamboo |
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A small pond above Duck Pond |
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Some trees had numbered tags, which initially I thought meant they were PA Champion Trees; however, there were too many and I figured they were inventory tags; this is #590, an Acer pseudoplatanus/Sycamore Maple that is native to Central Europe and Western Asia |
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Well, well, an early (or very late?) blossom on a Prunus 'Accolade'/Flowering Cherry Tree |
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Liquidambar styraciflua/American Sweetgum Tree is native to temperate eastern North America and montane regions of Mexico and Central America |
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Abies nordmanniana/Nordmann Fir is indigenous to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea |
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Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'/Blue Atlas Cedar |
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Quercus rubra/Northern Red Oak is native to North America |
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Scattered acorns of the red oak |
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Red oaks line College Lane |
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An evergreen tree that I could identify if I can ever find the inventory list and #24 |
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The Duck Pond used to be a marsh that was dammed in the winter to create a skating pond |
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There are ducks on the duck pond |
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Treaty Elm, the descendant of the Ulmus americana/ American Elm Tree under which William Penn made a pact of unity/peace treaty in 1682 with the Lenni Lenape Nation; the original tree was located in Shackamaxon, now Penn Treaty Park, on the Delaware River in Philadelphia |
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Quercus bicolor/White Swamp Oak is found in north central and northeastern North America |
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Dolichovespula maculata/Bald-faced Hornet nest is exposed when the tree branches are bare |
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I will call this the Duck Pond Stream |
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Found at the trailhead, this wood-carving of a squirrel was donated in 2019 by the John B Ward & Co, a tree service company |
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