All About Pocket Knives

I took some pictures on yesterday morning's coffee walk, the cherry trees are looking gorgeous. As are the Red Buds and daffodils.

Wonderful rr.

Love spring.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:02 pm I took some pictures on yesterday morning's coffee walk, the cherry trees are looking gorgeous. As are the Red Buds and daffodils.

All nice pics, but I like the one at Pickett & Eisenhower, looks like a great place for a morning walk.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:13 pm Wonderful rr.

Love spring.

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Floyd, that 2nd pic is absolutely beautiful. You need to hang that one on the wall!

Thanks, dog and Ike! Nice pictures, dog.

One of the things I like about where we live is that Holmes Run trail. It runs from Lake Barcroft (top left, close to Herb's place) down to Eisenhower Ave and then into Old Towne Alexandria, which is about a 10 mile bike ride point to point.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:01 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:02 pm I took some pictures on yesterday morning's coffee walk, the cherry trees are looking gorgeous. As are the Red Buds and daffodils.

All nice pics, but I like the one at Pickett & Eisenhower, looks like a great place for a morning walk.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:13 pm Wonderful rr.

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Floyd, that 2nd pic is absolutely beautiful. You need to hang that one on the wall!

Thanks Ike.

Pic from my backyard about 5 min before a hailstorm.

Nice, Ike, hope the hail wasn't bad.

Looks like a couple Red Buds and a flowering pear, maybe a cherry too. The flowering pear trees here have wrecked my sinuses, the city plants them everywhere.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:26 am Pic from my backyard about 5 min before a hailstorm.

Love all the color Ike.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 2:01 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:02 pm I took some pictures on yesterday morning's coffee walk, the cherry trees are looking gorgeous. As are the Red Buds and daffodils.

All nice pics, but I like the one at Pickett & Eisenhower, looks like a great place for a morning walk.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 1:13 pm Wonderful rr.

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Floyd, that 2nd pic is absolutely beautiful. You need to hang that one on the wall!

Thanks John , and I like Floyd's blue flowers best Ike. Pretty scene Ike.

Japanese Magnolia, I believe.

We call them Tulip Trees.

This is a late blossom. The rest have already fallen.

RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 6:09 pm Japanese Magnolia, I believe.

We call them Tulip Trees.

This is a late blossom. The rest have already fallen.

Pretty.

bighomer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 02, 2025 3:55 pm 1000014177.jpg

Great show bh.

Thanks buddy.

Wasn't looking for picture opportunities, but where the yard meets the undergrowth I see these long forgotten Tulips next to some Bluebells. I couldn't pass up a shot of "tame" blooms mingling with the "wild" ones. I included the JY Moore that I was carrying.

Always enjoy the pictures in this thread no matter what season we are in!
Most of our early blooms have already passed, still a few but we have prospects of a good season from several fruit trees. The 1st picture is the one that is the most disappointing, our Satsuma orange, no blooms, just new leaves as a result of the 6" snow back in January. Hope y'all enjoy the pictures.
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:53 pm

Interesting pics, I wondered what a Sand Pear was when you mentioned those one other time.
You sure grow some big mulberries down there!

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 12:13 am

treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 11, 2025 11:53 pm

Interesting pics, I wondered what a Sand Pear was when you mentioned those one other time.
You sure grow some big mulberries down there!

Ike, the Sand Pear is hard pear, not easy to eat like a Bartlett pear. Eat 'em by slices made with your EDC. We do sometimes peel and core them, canning in Mason jars, they make a great cobbler. The deer, coons, coyotes are all guilty of eating them according to game camera evidence.
Treefarmer

Pear cobbler was always my favorite although I didn't turn my nose up at blackberry, peach or apple, when I was a yonker this old farm had a good size orchard and my momma made some fine cobblers.

Excellent pictures, gentlemen.

Anyone have a clue what these orange snot-like globes are on these evergreens? I first noticed these last spring.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 2:36 pm Excellent pictures, gentlemen.

Anyone have a clue what these orange snot-like globes are on these evergreens? I first noticed these last spring.

I occasionally get those on a line of cedars I have on one side of my property. It causes me to keep the lower limbs trimmed because it isn't a pleasant experience to brush up against "orange snot-like globes" when mowing.
I have looked them up before, and seem to recall that it is a fungus passed back and forth between cedars and fruit trees in the same vicinity.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:23 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 2:36 pm Excellent pictures, gentlemen.

Anyone have a clue what these orange snot-like globes are on these evergreens? I first noticed these last spring.

I occasionally get those on a line of cedars I have on one side of my property. It causes me to keep the lower limbs trimmed because it isn't a pleasant experience to brush up against "orange snot-like globes" when mowing.
I have looked them up before, and seem to recall that it is a fungus passed back and forth between cedars and fruit trees in the same vicinity.

Thanks for the info, Ike! That brown knot looking thing in the top left of my last picture could be the remnants of one from last year.

Remember the purple plum tree I asked about last year…….?

In its former glory: