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| 5/3/26 snow gum eucalyptus, Maple Leaf neighborhood |
A pair of spectacular snow gum eucalyptus trees on my
walking route were among the many trees I sketched a couple of years ago
while following the book, Street Trees of Seattle. Sadly, about a
year ago, I saw that one of the pair had lost a major branch that had
been precariously hanging over the street. A few months later, the entire tree
was taken down due to poor health. According to author Taha Ebrahimi, these
were the first snow gum eucalyptus street trees to be registered in the City of
Seattle in 1978.
I didn’t have the heart to sketch the remaining tree for a long time. Walking by recently on a beautiful morning, I finally sketched it. In the foreground you can see the wide stump of the one that had to be cut down, but at least its remaining sister is still thriving and dancing.
(Even after sketching it several times, I still can’t seem to scale it accurately so that it fits on the page! The top of the crown reaches far beyond what I show here.)
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