The Name of That Tree

This utterly stunning speciment of tree-ness lives in our front yard.  What you can't see in this photo is the way the Paulonia towers over the 6-foot fence that Joe built -- in order to photograph its glory, I had to stand two houses away.  That's how big it is.  It's the kind of tree, as I've written before, that people stop their cars to look at.  In April, when it blooms as above, we talk to strangers, two or three sets a day on the weekends, telling them about the tree, its name, its age.  

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