#elm tree

[noseysilverfox]

April 2026

[welldigger62]

This is my giant tree in the front yard. I mentioned two days ago that it is dying. Had a tree guy up here, they will be taking it down next week.

The large vertical piece on the left is shedding its bark. They think it might have been hit by lightning. I know for sure that the two trees in the back yard have been hit, on two different years. You can’t believe how loud it is when lightning strikes a tree only 25 feet from your house. 😮

[angelnumber27]

Beetle feeding galleries on a wych elm

source

[nemfrog]

Grooves etched into a tree by the larger European elm bark beetle. The transformations (or metamorphoses) of insects. 1882.

Internet Archive

[paintingsandhistory]

William Penn's Treaty with the Indians

Artist: Edward Savage (American, 1761-1817)

Date: c. 1800

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Description

The Treaty of Shackamaxon, otherwise known as William Penn’s Treaty with the Indians or “Great Treaty,” is Pennsylvania’s most longstanding historical tradition, a counterpart to the foundation stories of Virginia (John Smith and Pocahontas) and New England (the first Thanksgiving). According to the tradition, soon after William Penn (1644-1718) arrived in Pennsylvania in late October 1682, he met with Lenni Lenape Indians in the riverside town of Shackamaxon (present-day Fishtown). There, beneath a majestic elm, they exchanged promises of perpetual friendship. The tradition may well have a historical basis in an actual treaty meeting in Shackamaxon; however, as the term “tradition” indicates, the event is not recorded in original primary source documents, and its details and very occurrence have been debated.

[downtothemarrow]

Elm tree

[fornasedensgudar]

Have you forgotten her?

Do you know her name?

Who is she?

The goddess Ilmr.

(Pardon my bad english, not my first language)

Shes listed as a goddess and occurs in skaldic kennings in the 10th and 11th centuries, and were likely about to be forgotten and lost to all time.

Her name and mystery intreeged me and my fiance, so we did some witchy trans work and see what we could find and then compared, and we both came down to:

"Goddess of change, opens portals to helheim.

Protect the dead and give a safe passage.

Maker of scents to calm the dying. Half sister to Eir. Cold, alone and missunderstood.

Helps you re-think situations and see diffrent outlooks.

Half asir and half jötunn.

Perhaps listed as a disir and a valkyria."

(This is our UPG so take it as you may, its ok if you see her diffrent.)

But also, Not to far of I say so. If you look at some of the very little we have about her and some theories scholars have.

Like most goddesses her name hints to her role. But we are not sure what it means? Some say ilmr means "pleasant scent". This is strange for a goddess/valkyrie but another of her name some say could etymologically related to almr, meaning Elm tree. A tree that on iceland would then ben a rare and more and more rare thing to see along with most trees after the first settlments. Wich might be why she was forgotten, if she is the goddess of the Elm and the Elm becomes rare and travel to places where the elm grow and pepole know of her, then she becomes more and more unknown.

Another intresting thing about the Elm is that in folklore all over Europe its associated with death, something thats rather intresting when looking to a skald from 950s with the kenning "jalmr Ilmar" meaing "Ilmrs alarm". A nother hint to this is that Ilmr may be related to the noun jalmr (noise).

Also, in "Bjarnar saga Hítdælakappa" Bjarnar calls the disir that tells him about his comming death for "Ilmr armleggjar orma". Meaning sort of "ilmr of the armrings". Another thing hinting to her work in death.

So what do you say? Goddess of good scent? Or death? I say why not both? Of lovely scents and with incense we give thanks to spirits of the dead and their Guardian Who guides them to the next realm. With a lovely scent she calms the dead. She who screams in allarm on the battlefeald, goddeass of the Elm. She who helps those Eir could not.

Ilmr.

Here it up to us, the modern polytheistic community to remake as well make something new. Traditions and gods change and its we Who write the history as we work with and learn more about these gods. ((But remeber to make it clear whats UPG and whats based in old sources))

So what do you say?

Do you know the name Ilmr? And how do you see this forgotten goddess?

[tvickiesims]

Seasonal Trees Set

Here’s a set of 5 trees converted from Sims 4, retextured and made seasonal. Includes a stone pine, a hawthorn, a weeping willow, an olive and an elm. I already converted stone pine, weeping willow and olive tree so consider this a remaster - lower polycount, better smoothed mesh, prettier textures and a bit smaller stone pine. GUIDs are randomized so you can use them alongside old ones if you want. Note that stone pine and olive have particular lighting on leaves in all seasons except summer (basically when the seasonal filter is applied) - EDIT 29/11: there’s now a second version that has normal lighting but higher polycount, be sure to keep only one version for each of the two trees!

Polycount:

Stone pine: 2809 (4913 for better lighting on leaves version)

Hawthorn: 778

Weeping willow: 6318

Olive tree: 2233 (3847 for better lighting on leaves version)

Elm tree: 1590

More pictures of these trees

Compressed, clearly labelled, picture included

Download at SFS

UPDATE 26/10

Forgot to delete falling leaves in autumn on stone pine. This is now fixed, please redownload if you prefer this version.

UPDATE 29/11

Added a second version for stone pine and olive tree. There will be no more weird lighting in other seasons than summer but the polycount went higher (see the list above). Choose only one version for each of the two!