Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spring cleaning on the outside. On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:26 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > After what seems like two weeks of rain, we have three sunny days > forecast. I have a 4-person crew cleaning out the vines and trash trees > from my shrubs in preparation for trimming the shrubs. Boxwoods collect > a lot of vines and invasive plants in a year's time. Here, the vines > were removed in preparation for a shaping trim. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013809.JPG.html > > A homeowner can make a lot of poor choices in 50 years. The utility > lines run above my rear property line. I originally planted white pines > well inside my property line. They got too tall, interfering with the > wires, so the utility company said they must go. They offered me > several types of replacement plantings. I chose a species of holly that > seemed attractive. Things were fine until the holly branches reached a > height that provided a resting place for the squirrels that use the > telephone and fiber wires as a "high road". The resting squirrels chewed > into the fiber bundles, requiring the replacement of a section of the > fiber line. The utility company that had planted the hollies then > required that they be cut down, which they did, leaving stumps about two > inches high. These sprouted regrowth which is now about four feet high. > This photo shows the female member of the work crew shaping up the first > of the hollies. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013821.JPG.html > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com