The young Memorial Tree in Felton Covered Bridge Park continues to grow at an impressive rate. It is still as remarkably healthy as it has always been. Now that the canopy has been directed upward and over the surrounding parking lot, it is maintaining adequate clearance without intervention. There is not much more to say about it. I suppose that I should conduct these updates in autumn, after growth has finished for the year, but prior to defoliation. For now, I will conform to the tradition of posting this update for the middle of July, as I have done for the past few years, but may also post another later, like I did last year. I was amazed by how much growth developed within the seven weeks between those two updates of July 12 and August 30 last year. Since the Tree is now too big for the size of pictures that I had been taking of it, I should zoom out for subsequent pictures as I did for the picture below, to show all of its expanding canopy. If I had planned it better, I should have taken a picture of the tree every summer from the same vantage.
Tony Tomeo 
Impressive growth
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Yes, I do not know what got into it.
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TLC maybe?
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It grew slowly while I pampered it and it was small. Growth suddenly accelerated after a psychopathic vandal tried to kill it with salt. It grew even faster after she tried to cut it down. It has been growing like this since she tried to run it over with her husband’s pickup. I thought that growth would slow once I got a restraining order, but it has not.
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Oh my that is one deranged person to attack a tree like that
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Well, that explains the restraining order.
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It’s become quite attractive!
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Yes, I would like to take the credit for it, but I have done nothing for it in the past few years.
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