Lush in the cold

Lush in the cold.

Black Locust Blossoms Thrown into the Scanner

Hurricane Fun - or not

Heard a thud last night - looked out - couldn't see anything......until today.

MASSIVE TREE

Swing and a miss

My neighbor contemplates her non-demise from her bedroom window.

I'll spare you the plumbing backups and flooding commencing during the tornado warning, that everybody had. I will tell you, there was one of the few deaths only a mile from here, a young woman who was afraid, and drove to be with her boyfriend, and drove into 15 feet of water, and managed to call him during it. they found her car 150 feet from where it went into the water. Friggin' tragic stuff, love, sometimes....

"Go home to your wife and family; sit down by the fireside bright."

Tribal Mask found in my back yard

Found on the woodpile. Courteous or addled by a premature awakening enough to not depart during my photographing of her(?).

Pine autopsy

We had a spectacular tree- a pendulous pine about forty feet high.



It was killed by drought, root compression, carpenter ants and shot borer.



The crew I hired brought a giant bucket truck



The operator had to avoid hiiting the powerlines to the house.




The cutting began.



They brought a chipper - or as I call it-


a "widowermaker" to consolidate the fallen branches.



I don't know why it was clled Chuck, but they explained to me they had to pay a competitor to chip the bigger logs, and then the competitor sold the chips as mulch, making money twice off the deal.



Here's the tree stump frowning - so sad. I fed this tree, watered it and pursued the invading insects as best I could. One day, there were zero needles anymore.



They gound the stump as part of the deal. I dunno why but the stump grinder was named after a 17th century Dutch painter - Jan Vermeer


Carpenter ant damage:



Feats of strength were performed by the crew.