Finally, one of the sweet gum trees let go its leaves. The other is trying hard to hold fast. The mower/bagger is retired for the season so these leaves will have to fend for themselves this winter. Not much actually under the trees; a sustained stiff wind from the south has blown a ton of them into the neighbor's lawn.
Que sera sera.
The wind has also blown down a lot of branches (I picked up a 4x4 foot pile) - part and parcel of having large mature trees.
A couple of dead ash branches were festooned with stunning lichen.
All my leaves are handled in that manner........
ReplyDeleteI clean up the big piles, but the holdouts get to fly with the wind.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful lichen. I always pile up branches like that to make mini woodpiles. Am convinced the (relatively) little slug damage we had this year is because I've created a good place for birds and frogs/toads to hang out.
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