Comments on: Festival of the Trees #30

By: mary

mary — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:14:01 +0000

Val,

Hello and I’m glad you commented, prompting me to look at your own blog. How I envy your ability to draw! I keep a small sketch book and I do find that if I look at something closely enough to draw it, I learn a great deal. But…my “drawings” are barely legible compared to yours. However, I believe you’re right in that it takes drawing, and more drawing, and learning, and then doing it all over again. Absolutely. I’ll be visiting your blog, too, to read and look and learn.

Thanks!

Mary

By: Val

Val — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:18:50 +0000

I am so delighted to come across your blog.. by way of the amazing coral snake bean. I keep a blog of drawings from a botanical garden in Orlando, Being from the UK it is all so new to me..I learn and draw, and draw and learn and then do it all over again. I have made a few post of the trees you mentioned and of course we were brought up on the UK “conkers” game with horse chestnuts.
I dont think there is a Coral Snake Bean tree at the gardens here. What a shame. I would love to draw that beautful pod to add to my odd pod collection and I do wish I had that oak gall, galls are a particular favourite of mine. ( my avatar at Blotanical)
I will be back to read some more…and learn some more…

By: Robert V Sobczak

Robert V Sobczak — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:37:13 +0000

Interesting concept. And well done how it was all worked into a readable narrative.

By: Dick

Dick — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:22:29 +0000

A fascinating compendium of arborial links. Thank you, from a reluctant ent

By: mary

mary — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:54:20 +0000

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.

Beau, we called those fruits “horse chestnuts” in my neck of the woods, but DN Lee and wikipedia refer to them as “horse apples,” which I should have clarified. Another name for the tree is bois d’arc, and you’ll see a reference to this in the comment section of Lee’s post. Incidentally, one of the towns in my neck of the woods was named “Bois D’arc” (pronounced bow’dark by the natives) for this tree.

All this to say that, the osage orange tree and the chestnut tree are unrelated. Still, I, too, would have loved to have lived with a true chestnut tree.

By: Beau

Beau — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:29:55 +0000

Beautiful festival Mary, and the format is very nice. Horse Chestnuts?! I would love to have a Chestnut tree, or have seen them in all their glory many years ago. Thanks for hosting

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:00:12 +0000

As Dave said, well worth the wait! I liked your introductory matter; it tied the carnival together into a sequential whole.

By: Georgia

Georgia — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:30:51 +0000

Lots to read! I like the format, too.

Thank you for including the “walking Berkeley” essay.

By: KGT

KGT — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:45:04 +0000

Very nicely done.

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Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:30:30 +0000

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