Mother Nature took down two huge trees in our back yard during storms in the last few years. You can see the trunk of one on them at the left of the picture at the end of the fence.
The two missing trees made a big difference in the design of that part of our property. We had had a row of bushes along the top of the stone wall you see in the front of this image, and large honeysuckle bushes along the retaining wall at the back of the property. Most of the bushes were damaged by the falling threes. In fact, that little bend in the chain link fence rail was made by one of those trees coming down. Our gold fish pond is at the far left end of the stone wall.
Now that the land is cleared back there, we're growing ivy to cover the retaining wall and will encourage it to grow on up to cover the chain link fence. I was concerned with the two big trees and all of the bushes gone that we wouldn't have as many birds in the back yard any more, but that is not the case. We have two other large trees out of the picture to the right.
I was very glad to see the birds still visit and sing to us from the remaining trees.
The pups are delighted to have more space for their zoomies. And, it's harder for them to hide from us when they go out at night.
So, here it is Spring. It shouldn't be long before that area is all green again.
Happy Spring!
Lois
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