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LEBANON, OH -- Many years ago I took a buckeye out of my pocket and tossed it along my backyard fence-line. Since then, it has sprouted and grown into this now nearly 15-foot tree, which provided brilliant yellow-orange foliage this fall.
While it hasn't bloomed in the spring and produced its own buckeyes yet, it has survived my lawnmower, as well as, bark-scarring from the antlers of a white-tailed deer over its lifetime. (I have tossed acorns along the back fence, too, with similar results ...slow-growing oak saplings.)
But as they say goes in the Buckeye State, O! H!.......!!!!
Overcast, with a high of 42 and low of 35 degrees. Overcast during the morning, clear in the afternoon and evening, overcast overnight.
...THEIR own election.
Thanks.. it's hard to edit one's own work, especially when writing late at night after a long day... so embarrassed.