Destruction and creation

Nature's two most powerful forces, destruction and creation, are constant companions when you live in a forest.  We lost a big paper birch in that wicked storm earlier this month.  Also, the power company's tree crews did some preventive cutting of a few trees leaning toward the lines.  We got a lot of wood out of both events.

This weekend we did cutting of paper birch logs and a red maple log.  Most are in 22" or 44" lengths.  We'll cut those into burnable lengths later.  Here are pictures of the work, followed by a baby red oak created recently.  During the storm, the blown down paper birch and a dead conifer both came really close to wiping the little oak out.  But the lovely tree survived.