American Elms

   A fine piece in the Sunday Times calls New Yorkers to contemplate the elegant American Elms that grace Fifth Avenue and portions of Central Park.  Our writer Guy Trebay touches all the bases -- citing Olmsted, quoting Dickens, interviewing a vice president of the Central Park Conservancy -- and scores at the end with this simple wisdom:  "Look up."  

   I have done it.  And taken two pictures in Central Park not so different from the one in the Times this morning.  Like thousands of others, I'm sure.

 

This is the one from the Times.