I was looking at one of my mother's photo albums from my childhood recently, and when the big rains hit a few days ago I shared her old 1983 flood pix with my husband and son. Flooding at Home Farm was MUCH worse then, and I'm really glad those pictures were taken.
Son decided to look through the whole album, and we had a lot of fun with that. It was very striking to him how much the farm has changed in terms of tree growth. Most of the land was cow pasture or hayfields, then.
There also didn't used to be thornbushes growing literally everywhere that isn't mowed, either. I like many of the new trees, but would rather not have the thorn bushes.