Winter Post Card

[hwp]

I thought some of you might like to see what winter in the frozen north is like. This is the aftermath of a snowstorm the other night - about 6" of snow. At least it justified some seat time.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

This is what it looked like here.

 

[Thomas]

Brrrrrr..thats 3 logs on the ole fire.

 

[Thomas]

Looks like the ice is starting to thicken..do Muskrat often pay the pond a visit.

 

[Thomas]

<font color=blue>Ice<font color=blue><font color=black> 3" thick on my father trout pond before this new cold snap move in.. 2F w/a full moon as of now..and the brook frozen over safe enough to cross.

I was wonder about the Muskrats around your pond,since it looks like heaven for them to spend the winter.

My father trout pond now being visit by otter /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif sure hate to see the little guy trapped. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

 

[rlk]

We had a lot of ice in central NC last week. Not much on the ground, but a lot on the trees and power lines. Here's a view of the trees in front of my house.

 

[rlk]

The ice storm last week caused the tops of trees, and a lot of branches to break. I have one very large white pine that a limb broke off of. Attached is a picture of the break.

We don't have many white pines in the area as they can't stand the heat. Usually only live for about 15 years in this area. I set this one out over 30 years ago. Not sure why it has lasted this long.

Look at where it broke off. Notice the tip of the break. The tip went almost to the center of the tree. The tree will probably die since it has such a large hole in it.

Anyway, I thought the way it broke was interesting. Never seen anything like it before.

 

[Thomas]

Very interesting /w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif..for the twist almost looks like it rotated than snap.

 

[rlk]

Thomas, it does look like it rotated, but it didn't, as the bottom of the limb is, or was, still attached to the tree.

 

[hwp]

Three days later!

 

[thumbtrap]

Here's some of my pics from the ice storm

Nearly every last Bradford Pear tree I've seen was split in two.
The cottonwood - I've always hated that tree, can't say I'm REAL sorry to see it go - but it was a large shade tree, and now it's gone and I can't replace it in a year.

We had over a million homes without power - many for over a week.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Trees are our friends, in more ways than one. And just like our human friends we love them not always with their faults, but because of them.

One time I had to remove a Navajo Willow. She was deforming two Live Oaks in the front yard because she was growing so big so fast.

It was like putting down a pet. I wrote a thing about ethnic cleansing, getting rid of her so the preferred trees could flourish.

It helped. But I still felt guilty.