winter tree identification

Just as I seemed to be getting better at identifying trees, they went and lost all their leaves. I've started to use bud and twig keys, but it will be a while before all of the buds stop looking the same to me.

tree identification

Most of the trees in the cemetery are tagged and can be identified using a list - a list that I'm going to get a copy of soon, I hope. It's not that online guides (such as this one from arborday.org) are bad. The problem is that they're about trees native to a specific area, and since there are trees in the cemetery from Asia and other places, those field guides don't quite cut it.