Dead Limb Falling

I was walking about twenty feet away from the tree from which I had killed the strangling Wisteria, when I heard a falling crashing sound and then the whooomp of the dead tree top smashing into the ground.  Oft times this spring and early summer I have been weeding the still sprouting wisteria shoots from around the base of the tree - really a dual-tree, one Ash and one Maple, of which the maple is living and the ash is dead.  Since I did not cut the tree in the early spring I was letting the whole thing stand while bird nesting time was here so that I would not inadvertently destroy some winged-creatures family.  Mayhaps I will take it down now.

Volunteer

This Brown-Eyed Susan - Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, brown-eyed Susan,  brown Betty, etc - is a volunteer growth in the midst of the volunteer growth of a thorny shrub which I believe is barberry.  The flower is the state flower of Maryland as The Black-eyed Susan.  It is native to North America and grows wild along by-ways and in fields.  I got the plant to grow in our yard by scattering flower heads.

Newfoundland Coast Re-run

Sam Started Small

Get That Paparazzo Out Of Here!