I started out taking a picture of the Calla Lily and ended up taking pictures of a whole bunch of flowers this morning. This azalea blossom with rain drops on it turned out to be my favorite. Then I spent some time in the shop working on the Ford Trimotor.
I had just mixed up a batch of epoxy when Steve came over to ask about falling the dying tree we had offered them. When I got the epoxy applied we went out to check where to fall it. There was a pretty clear shot right down one of the trails, Steve rigged up ropes and a come-a-long to make sure it went the right way.
Steve is making the undercut in this picture.
After he got the undercut made, he put some more tension on the rope.
Then he started sawing!
Steve had put wedges in the cut and drove them in several times, as he was pounding them in this time the tree started falling.
It is about half way down in this picture, Vera said it shook the house when it hit the ground.
Those darker areas might be why it was dying. The tree falling sure made for and interesting afternoon.
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