Have you all noticed the ginkgo stank over the past few weeks? It’s pretty atrocious in my neighborhood. Walking our visitors around leads them to inevitably comment on what they think is a dog poop problem, and they just think I’m crazy when I tell them, no it’s the trees. When they ask, why would anyone plant trees that smell like this, I have no answer. I can only imagine it was a mistake. (Except that if you google ginkgo you find that this “mistake” of planting female ginkgo trees seems to occur all the time, and I find it unlikely that I know more than city and university planners, so I think that there must be a reasonable explanation for planting female ginkgo trees. Does anyone know the reason?!)

Anyway, this brings me to today’s photo of the day, from Moocat.

Photo by Moocat

On the Flickr page where this photo is hosted, Moocat writes “Gingkos shed lovely yellow autumn leaves–it’s a shame the female gingkos also drop foul-smelling berries.”

Oh, I so agree. Looking at the yellow lined streets is just so pretty, as long as you can remember not to breathe through your nose.

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