#trees down

You Don’t Need Good Fences to Make Good Neighbors

When the first giant tree from a neighbor’s yard fell into our fence and demolished a lot of it, I didn’t post about it. There had been a horrific tornado in another part of the U.S. that took so much property and killed so many. People were hurting and grieving and to post about our event seemed more than a little tone deaf. A fence didn’t matter much. Trees-1, Fence-0 But what did matter was…

The light rain we just had turned out to have a pretty significant impact on Carkeek Park.  The Creek trail was flooded in spots, and there were trees down.

I was taking a large load of groceries to my folks, so I got picked up by them and taken back to their house to dog bathe, and cut mom’s hair, and then I hiked home through Carkeek Park.  It’s pretty relaxing. I then got a call in the evening about a computer issue, and so I hiked back to the folks the next morning to manage that in person.  For once the senior computer service was mild, and the carnage was all in the park.

On the Holman Rd end of the trail, some huge branch had clearly come down in last weekend’s storms, and taken out several other large trees on its way down.  That tree with the huge rend on it lost a branch that was practically a tree itself.  The first three pictures are on my way up the incline, seeing it for the first time, and the last three are from the next day, when all the huge hunks were off the trail and into the tree line.  I bet from the tracks it was a guy with a mini cat with a claw on it.