The Fun Dip / LikMAid / Lik-A-Stik* tree is blooming again
Notes:
2009-06-10
Black Locust trees in the Ornamental Gardens
Nikon D300 18-200mm for all
And it smells sooooooo good
(*Blogged about these sweet-smelling blossoms a couple yrs back [link]. The flowers smell like the candy, hence the name.)
Click bottom photos for larger view
Updated 2009-06-10 at 1500h. I pulled out the two photos I have of the tree shot and put them together. The photo on the left was taken June 4, the one on the right June 10. Click for larger view.
posted by olivia @ 04:07
26 Comments:
They're all so gorgeous I wouldn't even think of picking a favorite (but if I did it would be the top left).
Hi Olivia,
The entire tree, bottom right, is scary, like something from Harry Potter. The top of the trunk even looks to be peering down at us! Lovely blossoms and great pictures, all.
What a grand tree!! You've got art #1, reverse art #2, botanical informational, pretty, and OMG.
This is a lovely series of photos. I haven't seen a black locust in a long time. All the ones in a city are the new thornless ones.
Thanks for sharing.
Bottom right pic, I see: a gigantic, demented praying mantis, surrounded by bolts of green energy. The 50-foot Wizard Bug… but somehow, it doesn't seem hostile.
love the last picture, the tree is crazy looking.
Nice portrait of the Black Locust. I can almost smell the blossoms here.
love the visual play between the top two shots. the perspective in the bottom right is one that I always like to shoot too. towering!
Wonderful, especially the two top contrasting shots.
Hi Andi -- yeah, I really like that one too. I like the delicacy of the new leaves against the green grass.
Hi Derrick -- it does look scary, doesn't it. LOL ... it was very nice to me though, while I was there. Maybe b/c I kept telling it how wonderful it smelled and how pretty it looked. ;-)
Hi CF -- what does a thornless black locust look like (I'll have to google it) ... Does it have the flowers still?
LOL FAR -- :D
Hi margie -- I just love those trees.
Hi Leenie -- aren't they delicious. There was a slight breeze, and so the sweet scent floated on the air.
Hi AmpersandPrime -- I was trying to capture what it was like to be standing under the tree. It was fun trying to capture it though w/out looking through the viewfinder ... ;-)
Hi LGS -- one from the top and one from the bottom. I couldn't decide which to use, so stuck them together.
Hi Olivia,
I have to agree that the bottom right one of the Black Locust is my favorite. Next time could you add smellovision so I can get the whole impact. :)
Hope you've been doing good.
FM
Hi again. I think the thornless ones have slightly different names... like Honey Locust and some others. Don't remember about the flowers.
Hi there FM -- well, you could go buy yourself a pouch of lik-m-aid or whatever it's called down there ... :D
Thanks CF!
Lick em aid.
That`s the stuff that comes in a straw, right.
I used to love that as a kid, then found out it was a gateway to the seventies when "Coke a Maid" became popular.
The two top photos look like an inversion of each other. Beautiful.
Do they really smell like the scented candy powder in the straws?
Hey Head -- It actually comes in a pouch: 2 flavours and one candy dipstick (or 3 flavours and 2 candy dipsticks), and you dip the stick into the pouch to lick the candy crystals off the stick. LOL ... And yeah, they really do smell that sweet. :)
Hiya Head,
I remember those straws. :)
Don't ever recall hearing of or have forgotten what "Coke a Maid" was.
Olivia that pouch thing and two dipsticks I've never seen. Are you sure that's not a Canadian thing? ;)
LOL FM ... I'm sure you all have them there. Jen remembered them in that that other post. Maybe they're not allowed in your state, similar to the lotto tickets, hehe.
When you come up here to visit, we'll have some Dipsticks after our poutine ... ;-)
I used to LOVE that candy when I was a kid... your work is just amazing. LOVE your pictures!
They look a bit like ash trees. Maybe they're related. Ashes don't smell like dipsticks, though. Great photos!
I love your perspective! I posted about these on May 22, so you're a good 3 weeks behind us in bloom. Your photos here are so beautiful. And I agree with you on the scent. It's really quite nice. One of my favorite parts after the blooms begin to dry is sitting outside with the wind gently blowing. It's really quite a sight as they fall.
It would be hard to pick a favorite but I like those two on the bottom. They're kind of a yin/yang image pair of this tree.
I love how the leafy branches look so different with different backgrounds!
The bottom right tree looks as if it is dancing!
Really liled the first two contrast pics and the tree itself looks beautiful with we can smell it here:)
Im going with FM on this one. I never saw any kind of "dip stix" .
Everything was packed inside a long waxed paper straw, folded over at the end.
You ripped off the fold & poured it down your throat.
FM, The "Coke a Maid" was what happened in the seventies when rather than pour it down your throat, you cranked it up your nose. If the maid was around, all the better.
(At least, that`s what I heard) hah
Head, those ones were called Pixie Stix. (And "Coke a maid" was a lot of fun whenever the pixies were around, too, lol.)
go buy yourself a pouch of lik-m-aid or whatever it's called down there
I think it's pimento-cheese-aid where FM lives. ;)
In the Lik-m-aid/Fun Dip packs, I always liked the candy sticks way more than the powdered sugar packets and wished they would sell a pack solely of the sticks. Or at least that I could find a gullible enough child to trade me my grape sugar packet for one of their sticks.
Ms. O, did I ever tell you that ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla? A friend of mine once told me this on a walk in the park, and since it was convenient I fact-checked him, and yep, sure enough. A woodsy vanilla, but vanilla just the same. Nice scent on a tree.
Hey Shanster -- see FM and Head, Shanster remembers it too! :D
Hi Dreamer -- I'll have to check out Ash trees ... :)
Hi Kate -- interesting re: the delay. We've also had a lot of cool weather, so I'm wondering if that may be part of the delay. We still have lilacs, and some are just in bud. I took some lilac shots when I took these black locust blooms, and some of the lilac trees were covered in buds that hadn't opened. Seems really late for that ... I love the thought of sitting among the blooms when they fall ... that would be wonderful.
Hi b2 -- I'll have to go back and get another shot when more leaves come out and then when they all fall off ... Have a sort of 4 seasons thing. :)
Hi Raph -- it does, lol ... now that you point it out. It must have been so happy that its blooms were coming out. :D
Hi Nature Stop -- thanks!
LOL Head -- We had the straws w/ candy in them too. Dip Sticks were a different thing altogether. This stuff: [link] <--- wiki link.
Hi Jen -- lol, that is true re: the pimento-cheese-aid ... :) I liked the sticks too ... I remember I went nuts one summer at the cottage and whenever I got some change I would run down to general store and buy up these pkgs (think they cost 10 cents back then) ... I ate the odd one, but mostly saved them and by the end of the summer my top dresser drawer was full of them. LOL
Ms. O, did I ever tell you that ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla? No, don't think you did ... kewl! I have to find out if we have ponderosa pines around here and go check it out! Love that ... :D
What a beautiful set of photos -- artistic, lovely, graceful!
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