[Magdalen] Nature goes tee hee

[Jay Weigel]

The street I grew up on in Madison, WI was 2 blocks long and had a canopy
of elms. When Dutch elm disease arrived they were cut down and maples
planted. We visited in the 1980s and those maples were still fairly young,
but when we came back again in 2001 they had grown and were almost a canopy
over the street again. Thank goodness they were not silver maples, which
are a trash tree IMO.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> > I did observe that the British Isles, which had been spared the  earlier
> > destruction
> > seen on the continent of Europe, lost its elms in the 1970's about the
> same
> > time as the disease was rampant in the Upper Midwest USA.
>
> Lakefield Drive in Milwaukee, where my maternal grandparents lived,
> was always leafy and shaded by a canopy of elms...until one summer
> when we arrived for a visit and the elms were gone. The street looked
> (and still looks) so open and a little barren now in comparison; I
> can't imagine what it must have been like to be there when the trees
> were removed.
>
> Scott, whose parish church is at La Salle and Elm.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>