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two more Callery pears down

These two are along the trail that goes over the only exposed rock on this side of the property. Center of the lower part of frame.

The pine in the foreground was at it's greenest last month, from now until next November or so, this guy will have lots of brown needles.

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a sunny November day

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Scotch pines

I got these fromthe state nursery at Licking. Christmas trees, but I let them go and they did fine until this year when the one in front here is not happy at all. And one that was to the right now lies on the ground.

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OP43 inventory pano central driveway

2015-2017 smaller Pano op43 central driveway

Put in 7 silky dogwood which apparently like getting their feet wet in between drying out now and then. This was mud planting. No loose earth to fill in around roots, just squash mud into them. This shallow gully drains the fields up to the oak groves and now tends to hold water in some places most of the time. Probably due to the luxurious growths of bush honeysuckle, russian olive, poison ivy and the like.

Put in 7 silky dogwood which apparently like getting their feet wet in between drying out now and then. This was mud planting. No loose earth to fill in around roots, just squash mud into them. This shallow gully drains the fields up to the oak groves and now tends to hold water in some places most of the time. Probably due to the luxurious growths of bush honeysuckle, russian olive, poison ivy and the like.

Several of the junipers have these growing on them

Several of the junipers have these growing on them

Several of the junipers have these growing on them

Put in 4 wild plum here. The callery pear appears to have survived the girdling I attempted. Though perhaps it will have eliminated fruiting. It did bloom, but not a vigorously as in previous years. The two dark spots in the foreground are two of the very few exposed rocks on the property. To the right is mostly junipers, the right is more of a mix of mostly persimmons with a few others also.

Tree is adapting to the tie down -- branchlets curving up from it.

Couldn't get phone ready to take photo until he'd pulled beyond view. The Boone County tax assessor came by to see if I'd done anything to the house yet. He took photos. Car was a grey sedan with county license plate (6000?). Didn't get enough sunshine todya for the solar powered lights to light.

Couldn't get phone ready to take photo until he'd pulled beyond view. The Boone County tax assessor came by to see if I'd done anything to the house yet. Took photos. Car was a grey sedan with county license plate (6000?). Didn't get enough sunshine todya for the solar powered lights to light.

A nitro 3 golf ball, fresh, could only have got here from the place to the north? Several hundred yards away from the golf course subdvision and more than a thousand from the nearest part of the course.

A nitro 3 golf ball, fresh, could only have got here from the place to the north? Several hundred yards away from the golf course subdvision and more than a thousand from the nearest part of the course.

deer rub

Short deer.

The ditch on the south side of the drive has several spots where water collects, just south of the row of pines.

The ditch on the south side of the drive has several spots where water collects, just south of the row of pines.