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And on the other side Thursday, May 14 2015

gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos cercis canadensis, gardening acairfearann 19:42

of the house….

I have featured the apple trees for a few posts. They are on the west side of the house; but on the east side:

Cercis canadensis, also known as Redbud.

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A bit over the top Monday, May 11 2015

gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos apple trees, gardening, photography acairfearann 21:17

Pink!

Last year the apple and crab-apple trees in this area failed almost completely. This year not so much

Intermezzo: the skunk just walked past…oh my God!

Windows now closed.

Anyway, lovely smelling apple trees here:

You can see, bottom right, a bit of white? That is a new apple tree, one of the two Golden Delicious that we just planted. The non-blooming one actually, finally, has a few blossoms and is a Prairie Spy. Up by the kitchen there is a Spigold. To the left is the Wolf River. Not visible is the big old McIntosh. Also not visible is the white crabapple.

The little bit of pink is an azalea.

For scale that building is a perfectly good story and a half.

Where IS that skunk?!

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A walk around Saturday, May 9 2015

Esperanza and gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, northwest Connecticut, photography acairfearann 19:21

It would seem likely that I am making apple sauce this fall (the solid mass of white is a Wolf River apple!)

A good year for apples, this is one of the crab-apples

Looking back up at the Wolf River. Spring was in a bit of a hurry this year, usually the big Spirea hasn’t leafed out while the King Alfred Daffodils are still going, a bit of a clash of yellows there…

That crab-apple again and a window.

East lawn: Redbuds, Saucer Magnolia, Daffodils, and tulips

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A quick walk Saturday, May 2 2015

gardening and Landscapes and Modern Photos gardening, northwest Connecticut, photography acairfearann 20:35

around the place, widdershins as seems typical, from a few days ago, at this time of the year things change so quickly that these are now out of date:

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Learning Sunday, Apr 26 2015

Landscapes northwest Connecticut acairfearann 20:46

It is always useful, interesting, and otherwise educational, to go to nearby places and look at them from a different angle. Even when, especially when, you think you know them.

For example, I have crossed this bridge many times, almost daily recently, but I have never bothered to go down below it. It is a good sized bridge (that white pine over there is a fully mature tree, no twig). Yet, we are so used to our environment, in this case a fairly narrow road deck, that we don’t stop to appreciate it nor to look at the thing as a whole. Go look, again, from a different angle, on a different day, and the world is new.

(Satan’s Kingdom, if you were wondering)

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One extreme to another Saturday, Apr 18 2015

Landscapes connecticut wildlife acairfearann 20:05

Funny how it goes from nothing to inspire writing to too busy doing to write…

Two new trees: a Serbian Spruce and a Sweetbay Magnolia, joined the collection today. We shall see how they do, hopefully well…the holes are good….

Stopping to enjoy the land is as important as working to maintain it. I had the pleasure today of managing to put aside the to-do list (in this case a list for the land trust of which I am a board member) and just enjoy a piece of property we manage. This property is something of a love/hate for the board. A gorgeous, big parcel with the potential to be a real showcase, it also protects an important bit of land. But, it has just about every problem that an old New England dairy farm/sand-gravel pit/abandoned property can have.

However, we collectively decided to simply enjoy the walk, nominally meant to determine a possible trail. The view was a good reason. One wood turtle, far from the stream, likely laying her eggs; numerous tree swallows; three phoebe nests (one in a muddy blown down tree root-ball); Ruby Crowned Kinglets; one Sharp-Shinned Hawk; one Broad-Winged Hawk; one Red Tail Hawk; a variety of other birds; sign of coyote, bobcat, porcupine; and (the crowning glory) two wonderfully well constructed, very active (one trail was actually wet) beaver dams. That the beavers were busy cutting down the alder, birch, and willow we had carefully cleared the invasive shrubs from two years running and that their dams made a several proposed river crossing rather problematic for our trail design….well, entirely worth it.

Remarkable what the Connecticut woods have!