Lower mainland trees (& hello to all the still-colloquing)

it's Joan Blondell day on TCM today, featuring a lot of unseen-by-me but racy-sounding pre-code films & the small classic "Three on a Match" with Ann Dvorak & Bette Davis...

I'll be reading as part of The Kootenay School of Writing's "Positions" rag-chew this evening...

Local trees

All the dopes he could drink

"Other, lesser-used terms include ‘dope’ in the Carolinas and ‘tonic’ in and around Boston, both fading in popularity."

from LB--500 year old tokyo tree (with a belt)