My Oak Tree and Its Travels

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Google Street View image: Buford Avenue and Keston Street, St. Anthony Park, St. Paul, Minnesota. (July 2011) used w/o permission.

A happy memory from our time on Buford Avenue in the early 1960s — I talked about that a couple weeks back1 — is planting an acorn from one of the oaks there.

An Acorn and Memories

Google Street View: pedestrian path near corner of Doswell Avenue and Keston Street. (Image taken September 2022) from Google Street View February 12, 2025; used w/o permission.Among the many things I don't remember from that time is when we planted it.

I suspect it was in the fall, since that's apparently a good season for starting an oak seedling.2 And by spring; well, life was getting interesting, and that's another topic.

Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure we planted the acorn after we returned to Moorhead.

Seasons

Google Street View's image: Prairie Home Cemetery, seen from near 9th Street South and 9th Avenue South, Moorhead, Minnesota. (February 2022) via Google Street View, used w/o permission.Whatever season it was, I remember being happy when the acorn sprouted: and impressed at the size of the leaf. A full-size oak leaf on a tiny stem.

My oak flourished in the back yard of 818.3

Time passed....

More at A Catholic Citizen in America.

(Happy memories involving an acorn, two trees, three homes, and a library. Legacies and a few thoughts about trees, the Sixties, and all that.)

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