Can’t beat a beautiful Wellington bus lane on a good day. Or, any other day.

New Zealand’s largest pot plant, Parliament’s “Heritage Oak Tree” is doing well, a little over one year after its 30m relocation from across the building site. I’m hopeful for its future. Kudos to the arborists who oversaw its move.

Aotearoa Advent. The season of incipience. The promise of pōhutukawa parousia.

Wellington, on a good day.

Agh! Dilemma. Like the post? Or not …

Do LLM’s use probabilistic spelling, perhaps? Or is this question so far into the tail of the distribution that the nodal weights are random noise?

Huh. Who knew?

Life is full of little (AI) surprises.

The pale ferrous grey of anoxic clay is rarely as beautiful as this pit, freshly opened for the inbound root mass, illuminated from the windows above.

A layer of bitumen does several things. Excluding oxygen is one.

And below, a dark layer of muck, starved of air, will grab what oxygen it can.

This is where the our benighted tree will end its short journey. Firstly tomorrow (winds allowing); perhaps in a few years, as the tree succumbs in its battle with excessive transpiration, wind-induced physical stress, intermittentroot zone flooding and persistent low soil oxygenation.

A clay pit.

This story, and a description of the tree, can be found on the New Zealand Tree Register.

register.notabletrees.org.nz/tree/view/51

This time, the move is all of 50m, across the old car park. Last time, the distance was only 10m, but that didn’t prevent Council putting a halt to the job, at the very last minute.

District Plans must be followed, the public consulted, even by the Government and its imported tree experts!

Maybe this time it’ll actually happen. After 37 years, the rather modest oak tree in Museum St behind Parliament Building looks finally ready to move.

Contented burbling was emanating from the ‘Team Heritage Tree’ guys this evening, as the big Liebherr’s diesel purred solidly, then was wound down.