Oh - I STILL see some women with this hairstyle - fewer and fewer.. I so hope that if we ever go to war again, each and every person is as involved, as busy, as caring, as were the greatest generation. There is not enough to say for the women of that era...factory work, hair styles be damned, two jobs cause there was no one else, keeping a military putting their home fires at bay while they went off for Gawd knows what. A promise of normalsy, or welcome no matter what, keeping the home fires burning, and ready to give it all back to them on their return. Yes, the greatest generation men were wonderful, but so were the women. Victory rolls and all.

Musicalperson, I wonder if you should check your browser's settings. I've noticed your having problems seeing pictures in other posts also, while, like in this case, I've been able to view the pictures without issue. Maybe something in your browser is blocking images from certain sites or something. Thindery, I think Arktrees's guess may be a good one. Japanese beetles love eating Norway Maples.

'New England' though ranges from gardening zones 3 to 7! Big box stores usually use the cold tolerance zones to determine what they sell. Obviously, this is only a very crude measure, as it leaves out precipitation amount (and type), its annual distribution, heat tolerances, etc.. Take the latter factor, a tree may be cold tolerant to New England zone 7 (Cape Cod), but lack adequate summer heat for the proper maturation of its wood (which actually does relate to it Winter hardiness). 'Hardiness ' is a fairly complex notion (so many factors), and given New England really is diverse as a region, I won't know where to start in compiling such a list of problem trees. (Maybe avoid trees which have a relatively high summer heat requirement for starters.)

I have 3 browsers on my puter, use different ones for different purposes. I like Chrome, seems to load faster, my download time goes quickly, sure it is different, if the browsers were all the same, there would be no need for the different names, they could be 1-2-3-4 and down the line, each has it's own good points, and for that I am grateful, if everything were the same, sure would be boring world, wouldn't you say?