Interesting query, Doug. San Francisco is full of primarily imported trees. Orginally this penisula was quite barren - sand dunes, rocky et al. So the sidewalks and back yard and parks are a various bounty of different kinds including lot of Australian imports, What I call sycamores - and the ones I draw on for the tree haptics - my partner insists are something that sounds like 'fiscus' from Oz, but I been too busy looking, rather than call the City and get the real name! Except for the Acacia that fouls me with allergies when it blossoms - as it starts in February - I love my City trees in all their kind, shapes, sizes, colors. Good walking companions, too.
Stephen
--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: “How the poem is born,” new work - just published
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Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 8:55 AM
And very neat it is, Stephen. But I wonder: did you find some really interesting trees there? Arent there boring ones? A problem for some, perhaps; or of the 'reading' eye, yours obviously keen.
Doug
On 15-Mar-10, at 3:20 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Yes, to back up Peter here, the current issue of Elecsographia has just gone up - including my very own "Tree Haptics" with a little essay, as well
Douglas Barbour
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