We had some pretty high winds on Thursday and Thursday night. Sometime overnight two large (dead) trees fell in the meadow. These are trees that were killed by beetles several years ago. Eventually, all the dead trees will fall.
The bad news is that each time a tree falls, we lose some of the buffer we have against the prevailing west winds. The good news is we get a cord or two of fire wood for the next year.
Here is a closer view:
You can see that the larger tree just fell over with its root ball intact and has two trunks.
The smaller tree got caught in another tree and ended up in a strange position.
A closer view of that.
It had snowed and blown enough that we had to use snowshoes to take the short hike through the meadow. Destin was oblivious to anything other than playing in the snow.
Posted by Rick on 12/17/2016 at 08:00 AM
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It blew a gale here too Thursday night into Friday. A lot of branches down, but no trees - at least not in my yard - except for a dwarf Alberta spruce in a pot!!