The guys have cleared the timber-mess a neighbor left in our front view at my parents' place.Bill just drives his tractor over and they made pretty quick work of it. The wood is very dense-it was a Live Oak tree he cut down-we mourned the loss of the 2 beauties but they were not on our property so there wasn't much we could do. He left the mess there for over a year so we were glad to finally talk him into letting us clean it up!
My Dad is a regular Energizer Bunny-while they were cleaning up the brush, he took the opportunity to trim up the lower branches on the Magnolia tree so that it can be mowed under.
Bill cleaned up the area with his tractor, smoothing out the sand and dragging the branches to the big pile. He is truly an artist on the tractor-he has a gift for visualizing contours and it is fascinating to watch him. There are two large piles of wood-Bonfire anyone?!
In our yard-all the Amaryllis bulbs we planted are coming into bloom-they are spectacular!
And here is another beauty, our Fringe tree towards the end of the driveway is in full bloom. It looks like a dead tree for the winter but over just a week it blooms into this-the aroma is sweet, too, which is a bonus.
This close-up of the bloom shows you why it was named a Fringe tree-it is in the fig family-neat.
The front yard looks so much better! We'll all miss the oak tree for a long time...but at least now it's not just lying there looking desolate.
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That Fringe Tree is stunning. I've never seen anything like it.
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