I am coming to really love eastern white cedars. When allowed to grow into trees instead of caged in weird ugly hedges (sorry, not a hedge fan) they are so beautiful, with their warm coloured, fibrous bark, the subtle way the lines of it spiral around the trunk. The scaley, feathery leaves. I've been seeing them a lot more often since I actually started looking, and stopping to admire them. Some individuals in Ontario are the oldest known living trees in Canada, and I hope to visit them one day.
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@idzie
Yes!!! I have the exact same feeling. There are lots of cool cedar forests around here. They tend not to be great biodiversity but it's a great experience in small doses. And the old scraggly ones sticking out of the dolostone up on the Saugeen Peninsula are definitely worth a visit, along with other great ecosystems in the area.
