Since I have two bicycles, we decided to ride downtown on the bike trails and take the Ongiara over to Hanlan's Point.
As we travelled along the pavement, we noticed that some trees had small signs attached to them.
Upon further investigation, we found that whenever we saw a little green painted evergreen on the path, we would find another sign on a tree.
These signs, or plaques gave us a lot of information about the tree and for the next few hundred yards, we were constantly stopping to read them.
Once home and in front of my computer, found a web site called "The Canadian Tree Tours".
If you go to the page, you will find an interactive map with pop-up windows to give you all the information about the trees.
There is also a link to a photo gallery, and you can view a slide show
here:
http://www.flickr.com//photos/canadiantreetours/show/
It seems that there are 58 trees stretching from Hanlan's to Ward's with little plaques depicting their origins, their Latin name, family and a picture of the leaf.
I guess if you are reading the sign in the winter, it 's nice to see the shape of the leaf, as well.
