Yesterday morning started out about 35 and drippy with a lot of snow still on the ground. But the sun came out, the temperature rose to nearly 60 and by 8:30 at night, the snow was finally gone!
The midday walk was a lot different yesterday than the day before.
Night before last, Bill and I were on the front porch with Karl and Bob and we heard what I thought was a gunshot. Bill said the sound was a tree breaking. Karl barked instead of heading for the house. Gunshots send Karl for his closet hidey-hole. There were 2 more “shots”/cracks… Today I found 3 broken trees from the direction of the sound. As usual, Bill was right…as was Karl!
This tree fell and/or broke at the root.
This poor tree just broke…you can see the part that stayed in the ground to the right - it is about 5 feet high.
This is the very sad part of a June snow storm. I’m sure my damage was minimal compared to parts of town that have oak and other old deciduous trees. I lost the coleus that I planted in the tree root, but the alysum and lobelia seem to be ok.
The brief Winter wonderland is almost back to Spring.
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