Only female ginkgo trees bear fruit and stink. If you find a stinky one that was planted, someone probably made a mistake. And they do stink! It’s like a combination of vomit & dogshit. I don’t know what the fruits are used for (food? medicine?) but I’ve seen some older Asian folks collecting them by the bagful in the fall, below the huge old ones in front of the Sun paper building. They are beautiful trees.

This is the forest primeval…

Thanks so much all my helpful Charm City friends! Luckily for me, they let us all go at 11:00 today (I guess the judges needed to start to roll out their pie crusts). So although I didn’t get to anyplace today, I’ll definitely save this link for future reference. Have a Happy Turkey Day, ‘hons!

I love a good Attman’s pastrami on a Kaiser roll!

(Unfortunately not really easy walking distance to & from the courthouse in the limited break time.)

Not Vito’s!! Poor Romeo! He’s such a sweet guy! I love their Italian Cold Cuts.

I’ve probably seen the whole movie in my life time, just in bits and chunks.