Originally posted on Taking Place In The Trees:
A few weeks ago I was on Beacon Hill to run an errand, and snapped a quick shot of the Shaw Memorial elms in the rain:
It was a soggy, cold day, and I was fast getting soaked, so I didn't cast around for a better shot. These elms have been standing on Boston Common, across from the Massachusetts State House, for centuries now. This State House (for a long time known as the "New State House", so as not to confuse it with the original State House on Court Street) was built between 1795 and 1798; the elms date at least to that time, if not to a couple of decades before then.
Elms are a fast growing tree, and before the onslaught of elm bark beetles...
