"Up in the sky, look! It's a plane. It's a bird. It's Ailanthus!"
The ailanthus tree by our parking space is clearly some sort of super tree.
"Faster than a speeding bullet!"
The new green shoot - that I estimated was 1 1/2 feet high on June 7th - has doubled in height in three weeks.
"More powerful than a locomotive!"
There are also two entire new plants that have somehow managed to grow right out of the concrete on the side of the house.
"Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!"
These new shoots are all the way on the other side of the two-car parking area from the tree by the way. The seeds must have been dropped there from the huge canopy above. The tree is dropping its flowers now in fact, covering the ground (and the cars) with pollen.
"Smellier that cat pee!"
You might recall that I learned from Wikipedia that the male pollen-producing ailanthus flowers smell like cat pee. Well now our whole parking area smells like that. And the car. I like to think that this is all for some higher purpose.
"And who, disguised as a mild mannered and stinky tree in a great metropolitan city, fights the never ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way."
I wonder what its Kryptonite is?
The ailanthus tree by our parking space is clearly some sort of super tree.
"Faster than a speeding bullet!"
The new green shoot - that I estimated was 1 1/2 feet high on June 7th - has doubled in height in three weeks.
"More powerful than a locomotive!"
There are also two entire new plants that have somehow managed to grow right out of the concrete on the side of the house.
These new shoots are all the way on the other side of the two-car parking area from the tree by the way. The seeds must have been dropped there from the huge canopy above. The tree is dropping its flowers now in fact, covering the ground (and the cars) with pollen.
"Smellier that cat pee!"
You might recall that I learned from Wikipedia that the male pollen-producing ailanthus flowers smell like cat pee. Well now our whole parking area smells like that. And the car. I like to think that this is all for some higher purpose.
"And who, disguised as a mild mannered and stinky tree in a great metropolitan city, fights the never ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way."
I wonder what its Kryptonite is?
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