Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice documenting Jim lluis > El 1 abr 2021, a les 21:26, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va > escriure: > > After what seems like two weeks of rain, we have three sunny days > forecast. I have a 4-person crew cleaning out the vines and trash trees > from my shrubs in preparation for trimming the shrubs. Boxwoods collect a > lot of vines and invasive plants in a year's time. Here, the vines were > removed in preparation for a shaping trim. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013809.JPG.html > > A homeowner can make a lot of poor choices in 50 years. The utility lines > run above my rear property line. I originally planted white pines well > inside my property line. They got too tall, interfering with the wires, so > the utility company said they must go. They offered me several types of > replacement plantings. I chose a species of holly that seemed attractive. > Things were fine until the holly branches reached a height that provided a > resting place for the squirrels that use the telephone and fiber wires as > a "high road". The resting squirrels chewed into the fiber bundles, > requiring the replacement of a section of the fiber line. The utility > company that had planted the hollies then required that they be cut down, > which they did, leaving stumps about two inches high. These sprouted > regrowth which is now about four feet high. This photo shows the female > member of the work crew shaping up the first of the hollies. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210401-P4013821.JPG.html > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information