[Magdalen] The Prairie in Winter

[cantor03 at aol.com]

My hometown, Grantsburg, Wisconsin, is at the shore of what wasGlacial Lake Grantsburg.  The village is situated on a sandy shelfwith strongly acidic soil that has produced, I think, the largestof the Hill's Oak (Northern Pin Oak/Quercus ellipsoidalis species.


It's a shame these huge and wonderful trees are gradually
disappearing because residents don't like raking their toughabundant leaves.  They are being replaced with commonlandscaping trees.  An example is the removal of one ofthese species from my family home in Grantsburg by the newowner of the home.  That was a 90 ft. high tree that was 5 feetin diameter at chest level.
David Strang.
In a message dated 12/27/2018 3:22:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, scottknitter at gmail.com writes:

Here in Chicago, I sit on a plain that was once the bottom of the ancient
glacial Lake Chicago. Our city is