[Leica] IMG: Finally; A Pretty Day

[Don Dory]

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
>
>
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