Winter to Spring

This spring was a lot calmer than last year’s. We still had some winter and spring storms, but nothing like the one that hit on April 2, 2024. Work changes during the spring. In March and April, cutting, splitting, and stacking firewood for the season after next takes a great deal of my time and effort. By early May, that work ends and mowing grass begins. Warmer temperatures at night with spring begin the end of our mud season when our dirt roads are a mess.

This photo was taken by Molly the previous firewood cutting season. The large red oak had been severely damaged in a windstorm in early 2023 and I felled it. I’m standing behind the trunk of the tree, which makes it seem much larger than the 24 inches diameter at chest height. I didn’t fell any trees in the 2024-2025 firewood cutting season. The April 2nd windstorm had already done that.

I took this photograph after a winter storm, which left a layer of ice on all the trees. I’m not sure it is possible to catch the way light glimmers on the ice-covered branches.

A close-up of the same photograph.

This photograph was taken from our yard looking west on April 18th. Some trees are starting to show a little green

Redbud trees blooming behind a solar panel array.

A close-up of the flowers of the redbud tree. Spring has really started to arrive.

The same view looking west as the previous photograph, this was taken May 5. The transition from brown to green woods is almost complete. I’m done cutting firewood.

June 21, 2025