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| In celebration of American Elm Restoration month, a photo of the lovely elms on the National Mall. |
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Friday, January 6, 2012
Friday Photo Feature: January 6, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday Photo Feature: December 30, 2011
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| Silhouettes of trees at Casey Trees headquarters at sunset. See you in the new year! |
Friday, December 23, 2011
Friday Photo Feature: December 23, 2011
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| Citizen Foresters make the trek to the last planting of the fall 2011 season on December 16 at Franciscan Monastery. |
Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - December 9, 2011
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| We will be planting trees tomorrow at the Franciscan Monastery. Here is a photo from this past summer when it was about 50 degrees (F) warmer! View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, December 2, 2011
Friday Photo Feature: December 2, 2011
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| A bold sweetgum newly planted at Fort McNair by Casey Trees this fall. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, November 18, 2011
Friday Photo Feature: November 18, 2011
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| Tools ready to go before a tree planting at Capitol Quarter. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, November 4, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - November 4, 2011
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| A river birch planted at our 3015 12th Street NE tree yard. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, September 30, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - September 30, 2011
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| Crew members Jabbari and Ed off-loading a balled-and-burlapped sweetgum tree. On Wednesday, we had 159 trees delivered to our tree yard for the upcoming planting season (launching tomorrow at Catholic University!) |
Friday, September 23, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - September 23, 2011
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| It's raining in northeast DC, which is certainly great for the trees. We're almost finished with watering recommendations for the summer, but that means we're nearing the start of planting season! |
Friday, September 16, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - September 16, 2011 - PARK(ing) Day!
We're having a great time at PARK(ing) Day today. Check out our photos from today near Dupont Circle and read our blog post from earlier this week about our participation in the international event.
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| Setting up for PARK(ing) Day. |
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| Our mock oak tree stands tall next to a real elm tree near Dupont Circle. |
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| We met with residents and rush hour pedestrians all day. View more from the event on Flickr or submit your own photos of the event. |
Friday, September 2, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - September 2, 2011
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| The tree-filled Rabaut Park near Mount Pleasant. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, August 26, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - August 26, 2011
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| Tree planting at Catholic University this past spring. We'll be back at CUA planting trees on October 1. Sign up for our Tree Planting Workshop to become a Citizen Forester and plant trees with us! |
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - August 5, 2011
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| A close-up of our irrigation system at our headquarters' garden. Also see last week's photo. |
Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - July 29, 2011
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| Our recently installed irrigation system at our office. We keep trees in our garden cool using a custom irrigation system. Make sure to water your trees in this hot summer weather! |
Friday, July 22, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - July 22, 2011
Our High School Summer Crew visited the Franciscan Monastery as a part of their professional development learning day and our staff tagged along to take some photos at this beautiful place in Brookland. If you would like to visit the monastery yourself, make sure to bring along our guided tree walk.
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| The front entrance of the Franciscan Monastery. |
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| A Japanese maple. |
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| Sunlit leaves. |
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| Holly leaves in a shaded corner of the monastery grounds. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Summer Crew Update #5: Professional Development at the U.S. National Arboretum
For the past four weeks, our High School Summer Crew has been quite busy caring for trees throughout the District. This Wednesday, the crew got a break from their hard work with a professional development day of tree climbing at the United States National Arboretum. Casey Trees would like to thank Colien Hefferan, Director of the Arboretum for welcoming our Summer Crew and making this event possible.
Contributing writer - Zakara Wardlow, Summer Crew Team Member
After exceeding our crew's goals, we had the opportunity to participate in our second career development day: learning how to climb trees at the National Arboretum. When we arrived we were greeted by Master Arborist Steve Nagy from Davey Tree who gave us preparation and instruction on how to properly climb a tree using a rope and harness system. We learned the basic techniques and learned about the use of tree climbing by arboreal professionals, including pruning techniques. It was really fun to climb and proved to be very physically challenging as well. All of the crew and Casey Trees staff had the chance to climb the tree. After testing our tree climbing skills, we took a break for lunch and got ready to explore the grounds of the Arboretum.
We were introduced to the Arboretum's extensive collection of Japanese bonsai trees. Bonsai trees are carefully pruned miniature trees grown in a small pot of soil. These trees often live for long periods of time with careful attention. We were shown the oldest tree in the United States - a bonsai that was around 400 years old! I thought it was great to be able to see that in person. Tony Vlahakis and Michael Rayburn (tree experts at the Arboretum) gave us a tour of the grounds, showing us the white oak (state tree of Maryland and Illinois) and the tulip tree (state tree of Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky). We had the chance to improve and demonstrate our ability to identify trees. Unfortunately, our trip was cut short because of stormy weather, but we were glad to have the chance to participate in another career development day.
Some photos from this event (more can be found on Flickr):
Contributing writer - Zakara Wardlow, Summer Crew Team Member
After exceeding our crew's goals, we had the opportunity to participate in our second career development day: learning how to climb trees at the National Arboretum. When we arrived we were greeted by Master Arborist Steve Nagy from Davey Tree who gave us preparation and instruction on how to properly climb a tree using a rope and harness system. We learned the basic techniques and learned about the use of tree climbing by arboreal professionals, including pruning techniques. It was really fun to climb and proved to be very physically challenging as well. All of the crew and Casey Trees staff had the chance to climb the tree. After testing our tree climbing skills, we took a break for lunch and got ready to explore the grounds of the Arboretum.
We were introduced to the Arboretum's extensive collection of Japanese bonsai trees. Bonsai trees are carefully pruned miniature trees grown in a small pot of soil. These trees often live for long periods of time with careful attention. We were shown the oldest tree in the United States - a bonsai that was around 400 years old! I thought it was great to be able to see that in person. Tony Vlahakis and Michael Rayburn (tree experts at the Arboretum) gave us a tour of the grounds, showing us the white oak (state tree of Maryland and Illinois) and the tulip tree (state tree of Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky). We had the chance to improve and demonstrate our ability to identify trees. Unfortunately, our trip was cut short because of stormy weather, but we were glad to have the chance to participate in another career development day.
Some photos from this event (more can be found on Flickr):
Friday, July 15, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - July 15, 2011
One of the benefits of trees in an urban environment is providing a habitat for wildlife. Right outside the Casey Trees office we found a nest of mockingbirds in a street tree.
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| A mockingbird feeding its young outside the Casey Trees tree yard. |
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| The nest of mockingbirds built in a street tree. |
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| The parent mockingbird perched on a power line. View more on Flickr or submit your own photos of trees. |
Friday, July 8, 2011
Friday Photo Feature - July 8, 2011
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| Field of American elms at Daingerfield Island, early January 2011. |
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| The same field of American elms at Daingerfield Island, late June 2011. |
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