I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

A Quaking Aspen tree with green bark in the parking lot at the AMC Highland Center at Crawford Notch. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask?

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...