overlooked overlook
[OT from cottage renovations]
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Railroad Park
... is an odd sort of place; with a name like that you'd think it would front onto the CSX tracks, maybe even have a nice overlook for watching the trains go by. but in typical Grove fashion it finds another way, in this case through being separated from the tracks by a row of trees planted to screen its eponymous feature as well as by a strip of land used by an abutting business for storage. so instead it fronts onto a bus stop and affords a view into the Post Office parking lot.
no wonder it's been passed over in this space so far.
but that wouldn't be quite right. even though it embodies a vision seemingly blind to the aesthetic aspects of the railroad, the considerable effort that went into the acquisition of the property and its beautification are worthy of recognition and have produced along our perimeter a capsule of what the rest of the Grove is about. and in its centre is a space adorned with a couple of interestingly shaped large rocks and this staghorn sumac (not to be confused with the cottage's resident staghorn fern (platycerium)).
Rhus typhina
the above image shows that it came by the name honestly. but in the interest of full disclosure of botanical ignorance I have to admit to having called Ann B to ask her to identify it. figured it would save her the effort of having to write a corrective comment.