When I was 69...: hemlock trees

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Dying trees and old buildings

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At the very back of the Monte Vista Hotel, an old established (and refurbished) edifice of Black Mountain...stand these three majestic evergreen trees. I wonder if they were standing when the hotel was built in 1937.

They are tall. They are sick. All across the woods in North Carolina, the wooly adelgid has been killing the hemlocks and spruces. I wonder how long these trees will be standing.

The hemlock woolly adelgid (/əˈdɛl.dʒɪd/;^[1] Adelges tsugae), or HWA, is an insect of the order Hemiptera (true bugs) native to East Asia. It feeds by sucking sap from hemlock and spruce trees (Tsuga spp.; Picea spp.) ...In eastern North America it is a destructive pest that threatens the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) and the Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana). SOURCE: Wikipedia

Visiting Mt. Mitchell, I noted much the same sad state of many majestic trees...though the State Park says a lot of the damage is due to acid rain.

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The Monte Vista today...with more of those wonderful tall evergreen trees around it.

Tucking this into Sepia Saturday...which shows a nice old grocery from way back when...1944.

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