Microburst cleanup

That intense storm a week ago Thursday likely brought a microburst to the hill. Several paper birch became the victims. It was a strange site, with so much damage in an incredibly small area, with neighboring trees totally unaffected -- not even any branches down! 

We cleaned up the birch on a truly beautiful morning. The low was 55 degrees. Losing some nice young birches has a downside for sure, but several other trees, especially a really lovely young sugar maple, will now have more sun. And we'll have some more excellent firewood.

Big wind, falling pines

Another big wind storm dropped more pines, an unsurprising result.

More red maple thinned

We helped out some oak and birch this a.m. with another session of cutting and splitting red maple. The spot is only about 250 feet from the house, so there will be less moving of the wood before some additional splitting and the final cutting. The first pic shows the two maple stumps, with some of the oak that will be assisted because they'll be living in much less shade.

It was a beautiful morning. Temps will get much warmer for a few days before Independence Day.

Colors of the season

It's mid-June, which means daisies and lupine are standing tall and proud. 

This is the second harvest of kale, lettuce, and radishes.

Maple project completed

There's still some room in the cord-and-a-half area north of the main garage, but we added nearly three-fourths of a cord today, mainly from the large red maple taken down at the end of last month.

Later, on a walk, sunlight was captured by one of our many wonderful yellow birches.

Cool end to May

The morning low was 39! A great time for some more work. We took down and started processing a large red maple. 

Before/After Satisfaction

We completed the birch processing project this morning! A before/after duo of pics provides much satisfaction. Rain expected this weekend, so we wanted to get the job done.