I say tomato, you say tomahto
Tamaracks are native to Minnesota. The sight of a stand of tamaracks lit by low autumn light, when the needles have just turned golden but not yet fallen, well . . . I don’t need streets paved with gold in my afterlife. I’ll take a swamp gleaming like filigreed brass in late October, in Northern Minnesota.
(By the way, in England tamaracks are called larch. What side do you fall on?)
old and new Tamarack cones on a single branch
Such sweet little (are they little?) cones! I didn’t know that a larch and a tamarack were the same tree! I always called them larches, but I much prefer tamarack so will call them that from now on :) Thanks for teaching me something new, MJ!