Saved From Destruction

12 April 2013

This glorious oak was miraculously saved from destruction when the multi-lane highway was suddenly given a wide middle for a reverse direction loop.  So whether providentially or purposely it still stands giving many a motorist a feeling of grandeur of life.

Tree Trimmers Working Hard On Black Hill Lane - II

The bucket man moves to a new position

then in position the bucket-man becomes the saw-man and sends the pine saw-dust flying in a cloud of spray

With the slight lean of the tree aiding, the almost sawed through chunk of trunk succumbs to a slight shove

10 April 2013                    - and down it goes!!!

There Is Always A Beautiful Scene

11 April 2013

I had been to visit my mom who now resides in the Alzheimer's ward of a local rehabilitation center and as I walked toward my truck in the parking area as I headed back to home, the  large tree silhouetted against the sky and framed by opening blossoms on what I believe are crab-apple trees just drew my eye.  In a few weeks this same scene will be in full leaf with blossoms gone and this mystical view will then await another year.

Tree Trimmers Working Hard On Black Hill Lane

Parking my pick-up out by the mailboxes,  I get a nice photo of the high-bucket guy taking out trees from the top

A close-up as he moves to a new location

10 April 2013  -  and here the saw man in the bucket saws another whack of tree-top

NOTE:  another set or so of tree trimmer photos will go up later today or tomorrow!

Iceberg Spotting in Newfoundland

Himself with Best Friend - and Wife

Walking over unpaved land to a 'berg drifting into French Bay

Here the people walking toward the shore give some perspective to the iceberg.

12 July 2012 (and we're all wearing warm clothing)

After we had our photograph taken by a friendly fellow iceberg and whale watcher like our selves we drove from Great Brehat toward St. Anthony Bight and St. Carols on route 430-76.  Another passerby at  an intersection told us that icebergs were spotted at St. Carols on French Bay.  A short drive away we were rewarded by this immense drifting frozen fresh-water that had probably calved off the coast of Greenland.  

(I mentioned whale watching at Brehat - above - and we did catch momentary glimpses of the big forked tails as one would submerge from its' drifting position just below the surface but they were too elusive for me to even get the camera to my eye.)