Time to share a few more pictures. The sunlit chestnut grows in Rhode Island. (I didn’t know chestnuts were around anymore.) The colorful dahlias are in John’s front yard.
The brick wall with shadows is in the Fort Point area of Boston. The decorated pillar is one of several opposite the Greenway. It’s called “Harbor Stripes” and is by Karen Korellis Reuther. The work on all the pillars was sponsored by the Design Museum, which, among other enterprises, promotes public art.
The colorful shield is at the Swedish consulate in Fort Point, where I went to pick up my granddaughter’s Swedish passport. She has dual citizenship. I had to show a letter from Erik and also his Swedish driver’s license. I collected a lot of brochures about Sweden and about upcoming Swedish activities in the Boston area.
Wrapping up the photo presentation with more shadows.
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The chestnut that was taken out by chestnut blight was the American chestnut, but there are still groves of other varieties of chestnuts (like Manchurian). Good news for the American chestnut is that they’ve been working to breed out its susceptibility to blight (See the American chestnut restoration project: http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/). The woods in this area used to be 1/4 American chestnut at the beginning of the 20th century, before the blight–even now, walking in the woods, you can see small chestnut saplings, but they never are able to grow to full size–the blight eventually gets them. But the new American chestnut will be resistant.
I was hoping someone would fill me in on chestnuts. Thank you! Here’s the thing: if you look at pics of American Chestnut on the web, the burr (pod?) that I photographed, looks just like it. Could it be? It’s on an island, so maybe not affected by blight?
It’s possible, but probably unlikely. It’s more likely a hybrid. There’s a chestnut grove near my house that has chestnut burrs just like that, and those trees are hybrids.
OK. Got it. Thanks.
More nice photos! I like the last shadowy one the best!
I do like shadows. (Dickens, Bleak House, light and shadow, light and shadow. Life.)