I’m posting a picture here to see how this goes. This is a picture of some huge Black Walnut trees that I saw on a hike with my son in a forest preserve here in the Chicago suburbs. It was at least 100 feet – a huge, beautiful, and quite valuable tree. These trees can be cut into valuable lumber. That’s not why I took the picture, of course. They also have a distinctive leaflet-pattern that looks kind of like a fern from far away.
Of course, there are two not-so-nice things about trees like this.
- They drop tennis-ball sized green nuts at random times. Even if they don’t hit you, you can stumble or turn an ankle pretty easily on them. They also stain your hands pretty badly if you try to take the green husk off.
- Black Walnut trees also poison the ground under themselves to kill competing trees. So they help keep down the underbrush, but you end up with relatively bare dirt underneath.
So, that’s why I like this picture.
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