BLACK AND WHITE

Arbor Day

By Bill Emory | emory@cstone.net
Published online 4:04am Monday Apr 30th, 2012
and in print issue #1118 dated Thursday May 3rd, 2012

Charlottesville schoolchildren measure the circumference of a Quercus alba (white oak) at Forest Hills Park on Arbor Day, the last Friday in April.
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3 comments

Antoinette W. Roades April 30th, 2012 | 10:01am

Bill --

Beautiful shot.

FYI: I have a real estate agent's listing for Rev. James Fife's Oak Lawn, of which Forest Hills Park was part, from 1866 or '67. Among other attributes, the agent notes:

"This farm contains 340 acres of land. One third of it is in wood-land, 75 acres of which is original growth consisting of Red, White and Black Oak, Hickory & Pine. The remaining 35 acres consist of second growth pine."

I expect that tree remembers those days.

Webster52 April 30th, 2012 | 1:43pm

Nice place for a botanical garden

hook reader May 2nd, 2012 | 8:56pm

Need to cut that tree down it blocks my view of the blue ridge