Tag Archives: deadfall

Cypress Swamp pollen 2025-02-27

The cypress swamp is full of water and pollen.

That slash pine on the left is an example of a tree blown down by Hurricane Helene that still has a rootball and green needles.

Maybe some day soon the pine salvage operation will get here for such trees. They can’t survive like that, and they have some value as saw-timber of pulpwood.

-jsq

Pine deadfall, back driveway 2025-01-13

Update 2025-01-18: Removed: pine deadfall in back driveway 2025-01-14.

Could this be a problem?

Honeybun and deadfall

I’ll get to it either today or tomorrow, so when something else falls on the front driveway we’ll have a way out the back. Continue reading →

Arrow and the downed limb 2023-05-19

Arrow was bemused by this big sweetgum limb in the drive path, that Gretchen had noticed the day before.

Limb, Arrow 2023-05-19

She wanted to know what I was going to do about it?

Amusingly, it fell so it was supported like a pyramid by its own limbs.

I brought the tractor and a logging chain and dragged it away. Continue reading →

Deadfall, orange kayak, pond, Blondie 2023-04-11

If a tree falls in the forest, does it land on a boat?

Deadfall on boat 2023-04-11

But if it didn’t make a hole in the hull, I bet the boat will still float.