Look at the road behind you

[sovay]

Finally, the day is clear enough for me to get a good spring picture of the Jefferson elm on our street. I'm not sure how old it is, except not very. Per A Canterbury Tale (1944): "You can't hurry an elm."



My niece wanted to know what was so special about it, so I wound up explaining Dutch elm disease and the importance of resistant trees, like the survivor on the National Mall from which this sapling was cultivated. The city seems to have accepted us adopting it under the name of Bella Ptelea. That's pte-re-wa in Linear B.

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[ashlyme]

I've got "Epitaph for the Elm" too! I found it among a few books for sale (a few pence towards charity) at a one-day musical festival (oddly enough, at the pub that The Orion Arms is based on).

Edit: please do write that poem.

[cmcmck]

I've just essayed! :o)