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Kentucky Color - A Northern Catalpa flowering in Columbia

By Billy Joe Fudge

Middle to late May here in the Great Wooded South is flowering time for Northern Catalpa. This three trunked specimen is, of course, standing tall and proud beside Begley Chapel, high up on Lindsey Hill.

There are several more Northern Catalpa scattered around the Columbia area and someone had much forethought to make Northern Catalpa the major focal point in the landscape of our Best Western setting up on Bomar Heights Hill across from Sonic. I suggest a drive by, to observe these beautiful flowers and quasi-heart shaped leaves.

It is often said, "there is no place so large or no place so small that one cannot find God" and I suggest a close look at the artistic qualities of Catalpa flowers might very well give credence to the latter.




This story was posted on 2019-05-26 09:39:41
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Kentucky Color - no place so small



2019-05-26 - Campus of Lindsey Wilson College - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge.
It is often said, "there is no place so large or no place so small that one cannot find God" and I suggest a close look at the artistic qualities of Catalpa flowers might very well give credence to the latter.

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Kentucky Color - peace 'neath Northern Catalpa



2019-05-26 - Campus of Lindsey Wilson College - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge.
One can find no more splendid peace and calm on Mother Earth than will be found in the filtered Spring sun while reclining 'neath Northern Catalpa. Catalpa crowns display a tapestry loosely woven with threads of leaves, soft and velvety-green, bouquets of flowers-white and yesteryear's seed pods-steel gray. Very few hardwood species retain any of their previous year's fruit up through or after the next year's flowering, as does Catalpa.

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Kentucky Color - a challenge



2019-05-28 - Campus of Lindsey Wilson College - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge.
Kentucky Color writer - "I challenge us all to channel our inner romantic, youthful selves to mark the middle of Spring with an unhurried repose in the carpet of green and white which God hath prepared for all of us, under the Norther Catalpa." - BJF

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