The final straw came late last week, at about 3:15 in the morning.
Nancy my (wonderfullypatientforputtingupwithme) wife, is a night cook at the Grille. While she was crawling into bed after work, she must have thought I was awake, so she said, “Tonight I saw a student carrying a tree into the Grille.”
Even if I wasn’t awake, […]…Continue Reading Plant Vandalism
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Easter Blooms
Drove through campus this afternoon on my way grocery shopping, and couldn’t help but take some pictures of a couple of things in bloom. It’s 70 degrees as I write, low 80’s yesterday, so that certainly sped some flower buds up I thought were going to hold on for while.
This is a Star Magnolia, Magnolia […]…Continue Reading Easter Blooms
A watched Spring never boils
The problem with watching the weather is the frustration. Even my years of experience in spring anticipation somehow still hasn’t prepared me for the wait, the fits and starts of the season. The landscape waits patiently, though, and the plants are right where they need to be.
Today in blooms? Well, it’s pretty mellow. The family […]…Continue Reading A watched Spring never boils
Campus Tree Map updated
I’ve posted a new export of the campus tree map Google Earth file, on the Campus Tree map page. I’ve added quite a few more campus trees to it, and the official count now stands at 2279. There are a couple of more locations I would like to map, and quite a few more pictures […]…Continue Reading Campus Tree Map updated
Wind Damage
I’m happy to say that Middlebury didn’t suffer much for tree damage from the storm I wrote about last week. Peak wind gust was only 34 MPH, but power was still out on campus for the better part of the morning. From what I understand a tree fell on a line near a substation. I’ll […]…Continue Reading Wind Damage
Plants of a (mis)Spent Youth
Friends ask me how I got into this line of work. How do can I explain it to a non-plant person? It’s all about the plants, after all, but how? What is it about the flowers, or the mulch, or the dirt? How did I get from playing Led Zeppelin on my eight track, painting my parent’s house white […]…Continue Reading Plants of a (mis)Spent Youth
Main Quad Work In Progress
Snow or not, the subcontractors are doing the work for the Main Quad Tree Removal. They started by Old Chapel Road, and I arrived in time to watch the removal of tree number two, the tree that was struck by lightening.
Here’s a picture of the wound while it was still standing. Using a crane set […]…Continue Reading Main Quad Work In Progress