Of lollipop trees and fall rains

This is a sample of the trees that line the visitor parking between the highway and the Havelock yard. There's plenty of parking, shaded picnic tables, and lots of green space to wander up-and-down and look at whatever happens to be in the yard that day.

The structure of these rather ornamental trees is in sharp contrast to their nearby wild brethren. These things are more like commercially available model railroad trees, but with one big difference: look at how tall they are compared to the vehicles in the parking lot.

The rainy days of fall are starting to arrive, which is my signal for cleaning up the workshop in preparation for layout construction. A tedious but necessary job that'll take a few sessions to finish. Soon the rains will have stripped the leaves, and all the tree photos will be of branch structure. Good timing for all this.