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What's outside of your picture window today?
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@artist01 @sueinmn Thank you Laurie and Sue, I was thrilled to see these irises yesterday in all their glory! Like you, Sue, we’ve had the super heat but we’ve been getting a good share of rain an I think that’s helped these plants along this year. The soil is very sandy so it drains quickly. Not sure that’s good for these irises.
Laurie, we’re surrounded on 3 sides by forest. We’ve lost trees before, it’s just part of living in the north woods. But the storm this past week knocked out some favorite 150 year old white pines. Our neighbors lost one 3 years ago and we counted all the rings just to see. Our lost trees are the same size. It was a shocker driving in yesterday and seeing the devastation. My husband’s been here all week working on clearing the yard. The section with the irises remained untouched! Crazy…
Posting a photo of my husband out working this morning. This is the top section of the one of the pines he’s clearing. When it fell, it took out several birches and other trees. 😢
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@loribmt Gosh, Lori, such sad devastation. I'm so sorry you and your (hard-working!) husband have suffered such a loss. Wind storms can be fearsome. So much hard labour afterward to clear things up again. I certainly understand what you are going through. Where I live, we have had doozers too, that tore off roofs, felled huge trees, landed large boats on highways or in yards by the ocean, crowded the shoreline with logs that had blown ashore from far-off areas. You have experienced much of that too. Mother Nature in all her fury.
Again, Lori, I'm so sorry. Take care. Hugs, Laurie
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So difficult to lose out tree friends. People don't always understand how important they are to managing temperature and CO2. 5 degree temperature difference between the side of the patio shaded by trees and the side with umbrellas.
I was sad to hear your surrounding forest is vulnerable to logging, the clear cutting is so distressing.
Sue