The trees of Franklin Square are not the healthiest. ADI am not among those people who think squirrels aren’t much better than rats. There are probably as many names for the albino squirrels of Franklin Square — there are (or were) three — as there are people who’ve seen them. One of the reasons I’m wistful about the trees that are coming down in Franklin Square is that I’ve just finished “The Overstory,” Richard Powers’s Pulitzer-winning novel about how important trees are to humans — or should be. ADADBefore I left Franklin Square, I walked over to the southwest corner to look at another of my favorite trees.

Source: Washington Post August 23, 2020 20:37 UTC