Tamarisk (p 158)

2705 NE Halsey. Today I finally got back to this blog and visited all the N. E. trees I haven't been to yet. It was a long bike ride from North Portland. You can see below that more than one is missing, and at least one address in the old book may be misleading. Again I apologize for the lousy camera. Maybe in 10 years I'll redo this blog with a good one.

Callery Pear (p 140)

Ugly picture, but I'm just trying to mimic the book. 13th and Weidler by the Safeway.

Japanese flowering cherry (p 135)

3612 NE Flanders

Carolina poplar (p 131)

3945 NE Couch. Next door, two of the same have not survived the last 21 years since the picture was taken. Admittedly, these are monsters, and if one came down, it could take out an entire house. Maybe the owners got jittery.

Tulip tree (p 96)

This is a famous tree in the Lloyd district. 15th and Weidler. About the time the book came out, Stephanie and I, living not too far away, stopped to marvel at it.

American Sweetgum (p 95)

This scene has changed very little. 2617 NE 16th.

Gingko (p 83)

GONE! NE 6th and Holladay. Construction of a new office building must have led them to chop this one down. Too bad, because the book says, "It was planted in the 1890s. We hope it has a long life." The building in the background is interesting to me, because that is where my dad got me my first non-lawnmowing job in about 1970. I "punched the tubes" on a huge old-school boiler, meaning I ran a long rod with brushes into about 100 long tubes to clean out soot.

Flowering dogwood (p 69)

The book and a nice plaque mention that this small tree was planted in 1882. In front of Nordstrom in the Lloyd Center.

Atlas cedar (p 60)

Across from and south of 2005 NE 17th.

Spanish chestnut (p 57)

I'm thinking the authors may have written down the wrong address, because I couldn't match up the background houses or streets. A big ? on this one. 2853 NE 56th

European white birch (p 50)

Another tree mysteriously cut down. One can hope for good reasons. 108 NE Laurelhurst Pl.

Pacific Madrone (p 47), 6114 NE Willow

That ugly stump and wasted firewood is all that's left of a great tree, 20 years and 20 days later.

Red Maple, p. 36, NE 21st and Hancock

Hedge or Field Maple, p. 28

22 years after being "severly pruned", these trees have filled out nicely. 2577 NE Multnomah.

Norway Maple, p.34

Had time to walk to this one (4028 SE Salmon) while waiting for a table at Slappy Cakes. Norway maple was also the most common tree in Eastmoreland where I grew up.

European Beech (p 80)

10115 N Thompson. Out past Rocky Butte. The basketball hoop is down and the heritage tree plaque is up. The only other changes in 20 years are the cars and recycle bins.

Pacific Madrone (p 47), European Chestnut (p 57), Glory Bower (p 68)

 Madrone, 2435 N Wygant. In 19 years, 11 months, the adjacent tree has died. There is a new Adidas sports complex in the background. Hip young people with fit bodies were training for something.

Chestnut, 4619 N Michigan. This is in front of some sort of nursing home. There is a nice community garden on the property.

Glory bower, 5622 N Atlantic. What happened to the fence? Whose bike it that?
With this post, I've done all the trees in North. Now I'll need more time and planning to get trees from longer distances.

Silver Linden (p 162), Black Locust (p 148)

 In Peninsula Park. There are more impressive Lindens in Columbia Park. That reminds me, this very day they are cutting down some very old Lindens in Columbia Park. Why? I'm going to call the city.

Locust, 2235 N Emerson. The woman there had no idea the tree had been in a book. Note that the other locusts next door have been chopped down in the past 21 years. Note also that the burl on the left about 4 feet up was barely visible back then. I couldn't match the book's angle due to the truck.

Western Redcedar (p 159), Yellowwood (p 67)

Thuja Plicata (Cedar), one of the few trees whose Latin name I know. These babies are more common at the coast, and I know a spot where some are 10 feet in diameter. Good to get this one out of the way, as it is very isolated from most of the book at 21440 SE Stark. I had to do an errand in Gresham.

Yellowwood, on the Kerby side of Peninsula Park. I'm only about 95% sure this is the right tree.

Pacific Dogwood (page 71)

This one is problematic. 7510 N Charleston is the St. Johns branch of the library. There appear to be dogwoods on either side of the door (2nd pic), but no way does that match the book's picture. I can't find anything nearby that looks like the book unless it is my 1st picture here. If so, the tree was taken out and the whole area rearranged, which seems unlikely. Typo in the book?

Oregon White Oak (page 144 & cover)

This tree is kind of celebrity tree in S.W. The picture was taken by a friend of a friend. I thought of maybe doing every tree myself, but why not use a picture that lands in your lap?

Goldenchain Tree (page 90), Oregon White Oak, (page 144)

Goldenchain: The lady who lived here had no idea what I was talking about. I'm trying harder to line up the photos just like the appeared in the book. 4635 N Concord

Oak: The guy here came out to see what I was up to. He pointed out some cables they had to install to hold the two halves together, as the old tree is starting to split at the base. 1815 N Humboldt.

GONE !! Noble Fir, (page 27)

Well, that's kind of what this blog is about. You can tell from the book I got the right place. Wonder what happened to it.

Spanish Fir (page 26), Pacific Dogwood (page 71)

 Dogwood, N Girard and Haven. One on each side. Maybe I'll go back when they're in bloom to match the old picture.

Spanish Fir at 9008 N Charleston. Great needles on these trees. Those arbor vitaes have grown about 5 feet in 20 years and 3 days, and the neighbors have painted their house.

Incense Cedar (page 51), Sugar Maple (page 38)

Sugar Maple, 3715 N Baldwin

Incense Cedars, 8602 N Woolsey. They are bigger, the foreground trees are bigger, and Portland didn't have big recycle bins in 21 years and 2 days ago.

This whole thing is to check on the status of all the trees pictured in the original book. I started with a couple close to my home in North Portland. Something is wrong with the Sugar Maple (38) picture. I believe the book address may have been incorrect. Yes, there is a big Sugar Maple at the book address, but the homes don't match. If anyone would like to join this blog as a contributor, let me know here.