Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Bending branches

Some men came yesterday and did a pretty comprehensive fall yard clean up.  Just barely in time.
It was a pretty heavy snow, sticking to the trees and shrubs, easily bending them over.  Of course, I was hoping for a tree limb weakened by the early summer storm to give up the ghost and crash to the ground knocking out the power.  It was not to be.

I was out for a walk just after noon when the heat of the day was finally having some effect on the snow accumulated on the trees.  There were many trees throwing down little clumps of snow as I walked under them, producing a pretty unusual effect.  A more normal part of the scene was nearly every tree throwing down leaves at a high rate.

Those men came yesterday and the yard was pretty clear.  By this afternoon the snow in the back yard is covered with leaves.

It has been an odd year.

3 comments:

Santini said...

Yeah, snow on leaves is one thing, leaves on snow is quite different.

We had a lot of tree limbs down when we got the early snow a week or so ago. And a short power outage.

Pretty, though.

Jimi said...

That's a nice evergreen in your yard. What's all that white stuff?

Emily M said...

That is a mighty fine looking tree. I think you guys must have gotten a lot more snow than we did - you could still see the grass through the accumulated white stuff here.