I've been waiting for a good ponderosa pine cone year. Ponderosas can have a good cone crop every three years, but sometimes you have to wait four or five. The last two weren't very good, so I was thinking that the time should be right for a bumper crop. Plus, we got six inches of rain in May. If that doesn't make a tree happy, I don't know what does.
Box elder, on the other hand, never entered my mind: Until I was on my way up Bowery Creek this afternoon and noticed trees dripping with fruit. When I stopped to look, I discovered that it was box elder, just draped with reddish double samaras. Box elder must like the wet weather, too. Beautiful.
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