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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)10/05/2017 6:50:52 am PDT

re: #203 geosherman

Tree blindness can be cured. A few years ago, I knew two types of native trees, oak and maple. I considered all conifers to be pines. Then in 2012, I took an ecology course in Wisconsin in which we learned to identify 14 tree species — which, in the chilly upper Midwest, actually gets you pretty far. Suddenly the largest, most conspicuous living beings in my environment were no longer strangers. The trees lining my street in Madison with the rough, saucer-size leaves were basswoods. The giant in my backyard with the diamond bark and opposing rows of leaflets neatly lined up like soldiers was an ash.

It is my good, planned fortune to be retired and managing the reforestation of 11 of my 19 acres of property. My fitness club is digging holes, planting trees, and clearing brush while maintaining the 28 disc golf holes I have built on it. Part of my good fortune includes many 80-year old black walnut trees and a grove of paw paws. Trees are wonderful! Did you know you can use the early basswood leaves as one of the best “lettuces” you’ve ever tasted?