Apropos of Nothing v. 2

Bea Beautiful! I love your color combinations

What a nice backdrop for your garden. l Love the door and the porch and trim,

I hate Comcast.

Really.

Really Really HATE Comcast.

OH, a red door. I LOVE red doors!!! It looks great.

Trying to catch up now that things are slowing down a bit. The floor is fabulous, as is your DH for doing it for your B-day. Love the 'Red' door! My favorite color and such a warm welcome to your home.

Dare I ask WHY pony?

Willow, my email has been broken since early this morning. I can't even access it through the comcast site. My username (that I've had for 10 years) doesn't exist, it says.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I can understand that! I decided to get a new computer when it didn't accept my password.

Visited friends near Portland last weekend and promised that I would try to get an ID on a small tree they have in their yard. The area is mostly native plants, as the landscaping in the new home they got was minimal. The tree is in a heavily wooded 5 acres.

A close up of the leaves. Should they keep it or discard it?

No berries? Or was this picture taken awhile ago?

It looks like Mountain Ash (Sorbus). http://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/mountain_ash.html

Are you sure it's not an ailanthus? They are so invasive and should be taken out.

I love red doors and I hate comcast.

Could be elderberry?

Duh, I think you're right, Patricia. You'd think I would have recognized it - I have many in my yard.

http://www.nwplants.com/images/shrubs/sam_mex_photo_jko_blue%20elderberry.jpg

looks very similar to Fraxinus.

Huh.

Not Mountain Ash, though that was my first thought until I got up closer. Not elderberry either as I am WELL familiar with them. Will have to look up the other suggestions but no time as Rarejem and I are leaving for EWA this morning to celebrate her birthday tomorrow. No, we still do not have interenet over there so will be out of touch for a few days. Sigh.....

But looking at the picture again - it does look like Sorbus, see base - Sorbus frequently grows like this.
Different families: Sorbus is rosaceae; Fraxinus is oleaceae.

If Ailanthus, the crushed foliage has a distinct foul odor. I don't think it's Ailanthus - leaflets in the picture are more serrated & there are typically up to 25 leaflets per leaf. Simaroubaceae family.

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Not elderberry, either, eh? This is an interesting mystery.

Hi all!
Been away from my computer for a bit. Just popped on to say I did my quick one night trip to Portland this past week. What a pretty city! Wish I had been there longer...only got to see Powell's from the trolley, unfortunately. Told my DH we HAVE to go and spend more time there, together next time. My nephew seems to be setttling in...hope so anyway! We ate at a place called "Kenny and Zuke's". The pastrami was to die for! Thought about all the people here on DG whose towns I may have been passing on the I-5. Both days were great and very pretty for driving and I guess I never realized that Portland was as close as it is! I am back at work tomorrow but I hope you are all well.
Cin

Kathy - this one has me flummoxed - could be Sambucus, but really hard to tell from the picture.
This is a great example of pinnately compound with mystery features.
I'll settle: SambSorbuFrax. =:0)

That's good. Kinda like that all purpose room at the elementary school: the cafegymatorium?

Welcome back, LFS. Glad you had a good trip.

OMG so exhausted. I spent the day at Ivy's apartment again today, sorting stuff, boxing things up, throwing out the stuff that's trash, and it feels like I barely made a dent. There's so much more. We have to have -everything- out by the end of the day tomorrow. I have no idea how we're going to even come close to getting it all done. There's just too much stuff, and only three of us working on it.

*stressing out*

Sounds like you need to get it out first, sort it later. sounds exhausting both mentally and physically!

that photo above looks like something in the Rhus family to me. Smooth sumac maybe? Rhus glabra?

Similar plant id discussion with options being sambucus, ailanthus and fraxinus:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1039006/

It is the common choke cherry. They are all over our place. I love the smell of them and the berry is a real great jam maker. Good wine too Sharon.

Nobody has room to take everything. You have no idea how much stuff there is... omg. All day we worked and all day people came by and took things. And yet the apartment is still full of stuff. Bruce is going to have to pay more rent on the place now because we just couldn't get it finished today.

I'll be back up there working on it again tomorrow. Hopefully we can start hauling out the donation stuff and trash so we can better see what all is left in terms of things we don't want thrown away.

The wood isn't prunus wood. And the leaves are laid out different on the branches, I think.

Prunus virginiana:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://spuds.agron.ksu.edu/prvi.jpg&imgrefurl=http://spuds.agron.ksu.edu/prvi.htm&usg=__GjxvM8lXd6YAXfmjvclPufAw99E=&h=1067&w=800&sz=276&hl=en&start=19&um=1&tbnid=xgt8O3AE-TUyAM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=112&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dprunus%2Bvirginiana%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18%26um%3D1

pony can has naptime now.

Still. Not. Done.

*cry*

Was there working again yesterday. Getting ready to go back up today. But today could be the end of it. We're hauling everything that's left to the thrift store today. Several truckloads. Then the million bags of trash need to go to the dump. Bruce has written off the cleaning deposit, the landlord is going to have to bring in a team to scrub the place.

Holy smokes. How big was this apartment?

Just found this 2+ footer on the path at the side of my yard. Great! With all the cut back I have to do this fall..this is the last thing I wanted to see. Had to shoo it away with a stick so I could take the cans to the curb. Now he is under a lavender bush. Guess that one will not get any pruning for a while..I hate snakes.. He appeared to be grey like the concrete, I hope it is just a garder and not some thing worse.
It give me the willies just thinking about it out there on the loose. Hope he slithers away tonight to the empty field down the street.

Here is his ugly mug

Cute snake. Looks like he has an owwie on his head. Bet he didn't like being on those rocks.

Pony, you again have all my sympathy in dealing with Ivy's belongings. Nothing like adding tons of hard work to sorrow...

Hugs!!

Bea, I like your snake, but can understand not being all that keen on weeding in his hiding place! We did a bunch of pruning at our E-WA house this weekend, but the back side of the red twig dogwood where I saw the very large Bull (I hope!) snake this summer still needs a bit of work. Figured that could wait until it gets colder over there and snakes are hiding for the winter!

Any Idea what type mine is? He was grey from his head to tip of his tail. Still getting goose bumps from this one.

I think I have ID him. Sure hope he moves on and does not eat my frogs or Chihuahua's!
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?special=browse&where-lifeform=Reptile&where-taxon=Coluber%20constrictor
Racer (Coluber constrictor)
RANGE: Across North America from southern Canada to Guatemala.

STATUS: Not federally protected

HABITAT: Open habitats, such as meadows, sagebrush flats, and talus slopes.

SPECIAL HABITAT REQUIREMENTS: Prefer more arid environments; seldom found in forests.

REPRODUCTION: Produce 3-7 eggs per year.

FOOD: Small mammals, lizards, frogs and insects.

IN CENTRAL OREGON: Occurs throughout Central Oregon

REFERENCES: Storm and Leonard, 1995.

Definitely not dangerous.

I love snakes. They are just one more creature of nature, nothing more, nothing less ...

Thank you for not killing the innocent little injured snake, Bea!

Pretty!! He matches his setting. And snakes eats voles and mice and bugs . . . good snake.