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I didn't take any photos at the Rare Book & Manuscripts Section preconference itself, but I took a lot of photos on the way down, on the streets of Charlottesville, and on the way back. As always, I'm more about content than composition, but I think that some of them are rather nice.


EDITED TO ADD, after the fact: our next door neighbor chopped down his seedling elm today. We've lost our privacy now -- we can see other people's back yards, which means that they can see us. He cut down this elm a couple years ago, but it came back, which meant lots of low and leafy branches.
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I sent two of my seedling rescue trees -- the peach and the flowering crab -- to a better home in New Jersey. My daughter-in-law came up in her Honda and we were able to put the root balls in the passenger seat/well and then snake the supple trunks and branches through the place where the back seat folds down and reveals an opening to the trunk. Because they were supple we could curl them around the trunk.

I also sent her home with a forsythia that came home with me from the rescue garden by accident; seven or eight oenotheras; four rooted cuttings from the mystery broad-leafed evergreen, a piece of curly willow; a Looking Glass begonia and two coleus cuttings (the mutant trailing purple brocade and 'ruby jewels').

Next I think I'll administer the euthanasia to the potted elm. it will almost certainly catch Dutch Elm Disease when it reaches adulthood, if indeed it reaches adulthood in that pot. It was an accidental survival, a seedling I neglected to pull up. I could put the curly willow there and then put the tree I really like, the red-leafed maple I've been growing from a wee thing, where the willow was. Right now it's where the peach was.

Less shade now; maybe my tomatoes will be happy this year.

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