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Edit, I bet 9 to 1 that the owners don't know its a chestnut. Most people just think its an ugly tree and if its in the way would prune it down. Amazing that you found this right in your hood!

Very cool! If it was to drop seeds you would see the pods growing on some of the branches. They flower white in May and now my hybrid has the pods growing that will be seeds. In the meantime prune a few branches and try to get them to root. Now I'll be asking you for one!

Brian, looks like it could be an American Chestnut. Maybe the parent tree was killed with the blight and this is an off shoot? Here's a picture from the web, my leaves look like this too

Yesterdays 72F under a dark blue sky was a top 10 day up here. ( after the early AM clouds and very light rain). Today the score is lower on any scale. A high cirrus deck is mucking up the score but I'll take 76/54 and high overcast as a top 40 day, you guys are doing better down there...

72/51F A "10" day! Dark blue skies and just about the highest sun angle of the year. Where is eek? I miss him keeping me on the straight and narrow with my obs.

Wow, what a difference between now and then. If your soil was dry before the .25" I doubt that amount of rain would get down to the roots. A good 1" rain would really help. I'm not a lawn guy but keep us posted.

I am not mowing our fields at all until we get back to a normal pattern of rain every few days. We mowed the lawn yesterday for the first time in 10 days but set the tractor at 4" instead of 3.5". Longer grass is best during a dry spell.. Lava, maybe your fert. is just sitting on the surface and waiting for a good soak to drain down to the roots. You'll get there. I never thought I would have a lawn again after our big house move 5 years ago!

One more lawn post. Here's a picture of the lawn. Lots of watering and organic fert but still losing the battle to the drought. 2" of rain since 4/25/18 will do that. CD's seem to be working with the woodpecker (only been up for an hour). Also off topic but there is my Prius Prime plug in. Love that car. About 25-30 miles pure electric and then the hybrid motor kicks in. Even after the electric is drained the hybrid motor has been giving me about 70mpg. Only problem is the car is not 4 wheel drive and low to the ground so you definitely need a 2nd "winter" vehicle.

Looks like you desperately need rain. SE slope getting maximum sun, drying out soil. My lawn is green because we water up to 4 hours a day, as much as the well can handle. Guess you have too much lawn for that? Hopefully, fingers crossed you will get some light rain over the next 36 hours and then some good T storms with fropa next week. Too much rain however looks like it could cause erosion. Are you applying fert? We use Agway's 15-1-10 "high organic". Applied every 4-6 weeks.

Speaking of Chestnuts all of a sudden over the past 3 or 4 days two Downy Woodpeckers have found my Chinese/American Chestnut tree in my front lawn. They have done a number on it. Very brave birds. I can almost walk up to the tree and they don't fly away. I have that black tar tree healing stuff and filled in some of the holes. Then I applied tree wrap. They still kept coming. We have 3 cats and we have this spray that keeps animals away from furniture. Has a bitter spray. So I sprayed the tree. Woodpeckers could have cared less. Then the idea of a fake owl and set that up but they learned within an hour it was not a threat. Just hung old CD's thinking maybe the wind will scare them. Neighbors will think I'm nuts!

Alex, you should really think about a greenhouse. Take the $ you save on AC and buy one of these. https://www.amazon.com/VINGLI-Greenhouse-Reinforced-Gardening-Galvanised/dp/B07CYS8DPB/ref=sr_1_26?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1528823364&sr=1-26&keywords=greenhouse

Tamarack, you had said that American Chestnuts are really great at regrowing.. Like I said in a previous post I had another small 10" saplings and stupid me ran it over with the lawn tractor this spring. Right to 1" of it coming out of the ground. I walked into the pasture and checked and its sprouting a couple of new small leaves. Soil is bone dry but I gave it a good watering so maybe (hopefully) it will continue growing.

Poor Alex at Bretton Woods. 3 nights in a row of 32F or below. I believe. 31.2F, 31.6F and last night 32F. Get those plants growing again, I think your safe till about August 15th up there in your cold hole!

Great info thanks so much! 100 years ago our forests must have been so much diversified. Large elms, chestnuts. Now the ash will be gone. Guess it fits the pattern of decreasing wildlife of all kinds...

Talk about climate change. What is the chance this could happen in 2018? June 10 1842.. " A late season snowstorm struck New England. Snow fell during the morning and early afternoon, accumulation to a depth of 10" to 12" at Irasburg VT. Berlin NH was blanketed with 11" inches of snow during the day. Snow whitened the higher peaks of the Appalachians as far south as Maryland". (From David Ludlum's Weatherbook)

Tamarack, The pure American Chestnut was given to me when it was about 10" tall. So I think this is the third summer for it. I planted it in my lower pasture about 50 feet from the dirt road. The deer usually stay away from the road and the tree was mostly buried in snow. Now it is really growing so I will put deer fencing around it. It does have a main stem but as you can see the lower branches are pretty low. Should I do anything or just let it grow as is? I am not really a tree person and thought the Chestnut blight had passed now that the Chestnuts are gone, guess not. I was down at Wellesley college last week for my nieces graduation. Beautiful campus with huge old trees. I spotted an American Chestnut. Walked over and there was a stone saying 1899. Cool to see such an old tree. Here is my American Chestnut. This thread reminds me to go down and water it. Soil is bone dry. I had a second and idiot me ran it over when it was tiny. Argghh...

So many Ash trees around here. I have one in my backyard that is the centerpiece of my flower beds. Also one next to the road in my front yard. I didn't realize that the Asian longhorned beetle kills about all of the ash trees. Really sad. About the Chestnut trees. I knew they were wiped out. 25 years ago a nursery was trying to grow a hybrid Asia/American chestnut tree. I bought one. It is doing great, about 20 feet tall. Then 2 years ago a neighbor had a friend that was having success in growing 100% baby American Chestnut trees. He gave me a 12" sapling. It is also doing great and is about 3 feet tall. Here is a picture of my frontyard with the hybrid chestnut and ash tree behind it.

Alex at the base of Bretton Woods along the river recorded a low of 30.2F. About 3 hours at 32F or lower. Very impressive for June 10th! Here is his graph, time sensitive https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KNHCARRO4#history

Ouch, Alex in the Valley at Bretton Woods, 30.2F. I've been to his weather station and it seemed very accurate. Looking at his graph on WxUnderground he was below freezing from 345am to about 640am. I'll have to text him to see how much damage was done to his garden....

I don't usually look at this thread but saw the tree post. I am trying to repopulate American Chestnuts on my property. I have a 20-year-old Chinese American hybrid growing and it's doing well. A friend of mine knows someone who is growing 100% American Chestnuts and he gave us 2. Planted last year, so far so good. I was down in Wellesley Mass at my niece's graduation and noticed they had a very old American Chestnut. Placard said planted 1899. Very cool to see...

From my DD run this morning. Lots of brown lawns developing around the hood! Really unusual for early June

.63" yesterday and .08" today. Finally some rain after .77" for all of May. Looks like this will be about it for this event. Another long wait for more moisture.... Just looked at the GFS, really nothing for the next 10 days...

.55" very happy! Perhaps another .25" over the next day or two..

Cold front through and change of airmass is noticable. 74/64F. Last week a 64F dew would have felt humid, now it feels refreshing. It's coming down there...

Tamarack, stop! Ha, you were my drought buddy and you have abandoned me!. Not a drop here yesterday. Still 1.3" since April 25th! Looking forward to Monday-Wednesday...