White Willow in the town

 A magnificent White Willow (Salix alba) in the town, with its blue/green leaves just turning. Unlike some other willows, the leaves don't really colour up in autumn.  

Wonderful Willow

 Lovely big Crack Willow Spotted while out on a sunny November day. 

The light was fantastic.

A Visit to the cemetery

Some more big trees at North Cemetery.

First a couple of conifers, a big Cypress and a Yew.

Then a very large cherry of some kind. Not seen such an old Cherry tree!

 

Then I spotted a large Whitebeam that had a large hole in the trunk. It was completely hollow inside, the wood there being just pulp.

Then  I saw the large Sweet Chestnut and waited till the kids were next to it to give a sense of scale.

Next a large Locust with strange knobbly growths on the trunk.

 

 There were lots of Lime trees in flower, the smell was fantastic.

 

 

Finally a large variegated Sycamore.

Couple of Cousins

From a walk today,  a lovely big Crack Willow.

And further along a nice big Black Poplar

 

Which on closer inspection has a large fungal attachment! 

May there be trees

 I didn't post anything for April, and I toyed with the idea of deleting the blog. I might still do so as I have another photography blog I could put trees in, but for now here's 3 trees from today's walk. 

Horse Chestnut

Hawthorn 

And Ash 

Two contrasting trees

 Two very different trees today. First a mature flowering cherry, just coming into its own.

Then a  stately Locust tree (Robinia) yet to come into leaf.

A herald of Spring

 A beautiful Prunus cerasifera puts on a show.

Maples at dusk

 I've not been out much this month what with Covid and all that, then I got it myself and it was like having a flu for about 10 days. 

Today I took a walk with the dog and snapped some maples as sunset approached.

A big Ash!

 Spotted this magnificent Ash today. Must have passed it a hundred trees but never really noticed it. Its obviously suffered some extensive damage in its life but it has fought back.