Saturday, December 12, 2009

honey locust tree

Guelph is at the northernmost edge of the Carolinian forest so wild honey locust trees are rare. Their thorns are thought to have developed to ward off now extinct animals.
Sunny Acres Park, December 2009

2 comments:

Alec said...

Tree huggers maybe? That's so cool though, I can't beleive it's in Sunny Acres.

randy sutherland said...

giant beavers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castoroides_ohioensis