Turns out Norway spruces don’t care for microbursts.  It could be worse, much, much worse.   That being said, losing the best of the ‘young’ Norways just south of the drive and another farther to the south is sad.  These weren’t small trees: about 18-20 inches in diameter and sixty or seventy feet in height.  The major loss is the one by the drive, very healthy and with good branches all the way to the ground it was an important tree in creating the feel of a deep forest.  On the way down they smashed a twenty year old spruce but avoided everything else.  Kind of them.  They could have hit the ancient Wayfaring tree, the Sargent’s Hemlock, another young spruce, a young beech, etc.

It is going to take us a while to chop them up…

A larger problem is a hemlock farther south on the old road which is tilted over at a forty five degree angle, bowing and popping another hemlock, and both leaning against a sugar maple.  Again about sixty feet tall.  Not sure how to deal with him, much too precarious for us to handle, and completely unreachable with a vehicle.

But, amazingly, that is all we lost of any consequence.