With all the recent wintry weather we’ve experienced, I found the return of the wildlife to our neighborhood encouraging. Hungry birds hovered near the apple tree where forgotten, fallen fruit waited for consumption, often triggering feathered wars. Squirrels chattered their dismay, having been forced from the yard by the layer of snow, followed by an […]
Ice storms
Bidding Farewell to an Old Friend
The time to say goodbye had come. In an ice storm earlier this year, a massive branch of our fifty-year-old locust tree sheared off in a wind storm. We lost gutters and our neighbor part of his roof. The arborist told us he could trim the tree close to the trunk, but we’d be putting […]