Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Tree Hog
On a clear, pleasant morning, as I opened the garden gate, a loud clucking noise overhead startled me; for a second I thought it must be a squirrel, but then a large cloud of dead leaves showered down on me, accompanied by a loud racket, and a wild turkey flew pell-mell out of the tree, across the yard, and into a ravine. On entering the garden, I found that the turkey wasn't the only critter to be up in the trees; there is a thirty foot tall Pink Spires crabapple in the garden, and one of its large, upright limbs was completely snapped off, while side limbs were broken off another of the main trunks. Unfortunately, this has pretty well trashed this large tree, and I know who to blame: racoons climb up to eat the apples, and this particular tree, with its stiffly upright limbs, gets damaged. I'd take it out, but I have a large sweet autumn clematis growing up it, so I'll trim off the dead limbs and hope for the best. I could have taken up stamp collecting instead of gardening, you know.
// posted by IBOY @ 7:20 AM 
