This morning we had a great time participating in the MillionTreesNYC project. We arrive at Father Macri’s Park around 10:30am about a half our after the program started. We signed in and received our work gloves, official pin and honorary t-shirt! Then we picked a tree, got a simple instructional demo and got to digging! There were so many people turning out it was so great to see. Me, Dina, her uncle and cuz picked ourselves a spot closer to the west shore expressway and started to plant our trees. We first thought we could only plant a single tree, but it turns out they kept trucking them in and we were able to plant as many as we felt like planting. Awesome. So we probably planted almost twenty different trees. That’s one phenomenal thing that they thought out. The parks department didn’t just decide to plant a monoculture of trees. The trees were varied throughout the area. They had tulip poplars (liriodendron tulipifer) and sycamore (platanus occidentalis) to sweet gum (liquidambar styraciflua) and white oak white oak (quercus alba.) Not just deciduous trees, but coniferous evergreens too! After getting dirty we took a few group photos, wished our trees good luck and headed for the cars. A pleasant surprise was they had a free box lunch! Free food and the opportunity to plant trees and help our environment how could we lose!? Plus they had a vegetarian option, yummy! (Grilled vegetables, melted mozzarella, and red peppers on delicious focaccia bread; plus a juicy apple and scrumptious brownie.)
If your interested and live in the NYC area check out Million Trees NYC
Another great and ambitious project by The Nature Conservancy is a project to plant a billion trees Plant A Billion
In some last minute photographs I remembered the white balance function on the phone and threw it into cloudy mode to spruce up this last picture. You can see some lingering fall colors, hard working volunteers, and all the saplings just waiting to grow!
All cellphone shots so no smart comments :-p LG ENV2 VX9100 incase your curious 
Oh, here comes the rain…drink up my leafy friends!
