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Visit to the old non-palmy home town - maybe yours too?

DoomsDave

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Unlike some other Palm Talkers, I didn’t have the good fortune to be born and raised in a palmy environment; I am a product of the industrial parts of Ohio, Cleveland to be specific. I left Ohio in 1985 for California and have been here ever since. Haven’t regretted that decision for a New York Nanosecond, but sometimes you think about the place of your roots now and then. 

I just got back from a seven day Cleveland sabbatical, for a high school reunion, and also to hang out with my younger brother for a bit.

Our nuclear family moved into the house brother now occupies back in 1970, and the oak tree pictured below was already there, about forty feet tall. 

Now it’s about 100 feet tall and nearly as wide across the crown. Glorious!

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Black oaks are all over and I took them for granted, till a big storm knocked one over, or it otherwise met demise.

But even as a kid I noticed this one, gadzooks. Trunk looks to be eight feet across.

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Many other black oaks weren’t as fortunate: they got trimmed by the power company.

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There’s other trees, too, including American Elm.

I remember this one as a child, too.

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Wow a nice surviving American Elm is a cool find. We escaped northern Ohio (Akron) 2 and a half years ago, not where I’m originally from but my wife grew up in southeastern Ohio. I don’t miss the winters but it really is deciduous paradise, huge beautiful oaks of various kinds, black oak, red oak, scarlet oak, burr oak etc. as well as beech, maple, tulip, sycamore. Really great trail system there between Cleveland/Akron/Canton where it’s excellent to hike/bike and enjoy the beautiful deciduous trees. At least for about 5 months anyway, the rest of the year it’s a bare gray wasteland 😂. 

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Corpus Christi, TX, near salt water, zone 9b/10a! Except when it isn't and everything gets nuked.

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