Weeping willows still wearing all their golden leaves in mid-November at Ashbridge’s Bay. © BCP 2010
Funny how trees in different parts of our city lose their leaves at different rates. At the Brick Works last week, for example, all the deciduous trees in the valley were bereft of foliage, while some of the stately old oaks at the top of the slope were stubbornly hanging on to their browning leaves.
It was a completely different story at the Beach yesterday, when I went out on a short ramble just to sniff the fall air. I found most of the trees still wearing all their leaves. Something in the micro climate, perhaps? The weeping willows were particularly beautiful in the late afternoon sunshine.
Weeping willows are non-native ornamentals formed by crossing Peking willow (Salix babylonica) from China and White willow (Salix alba) from Europe. (Thanks Wiki.) I suppose in a perfect world (or at least a perfectly politically correct world) we would only have native plants in our city parks. But then we would undoubtedly miss the incomparable beauty that is theirs in every season.
Below is another view of one of these old beauties.
© BCP 2010
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