Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Published Wednesday, 1 February 2023 by Piper Haywood

Winter cherry tree

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Went to an HTML Energy gathering last weekend, got to see some great old faces and meet lovely new ones. I tried to hand-draw a leafless cherry tree ASCII-style but got the grid wrong. Here’s a re-attempt.

A teensy, tiny bit of snow stuck to the ground overnight and there was a light dusting when we woke up. First of the season.

Published Tuesday, 31 January 2023 by Piper Haywood

Tasty tree

The entire tree was covered in rows of these woodpecker holes, head to foot. I’m pretty sure it’s a crabapple. Supposedly sapsuckers drill these holes and come back for a sweet drink every once in a while. These holes are probably old, there shouldn’t be any sap flowing yet this year.