Opening up...

Sometimes, even though you really love trees, you have just too, too many trees. Squirrely planted far too many willows, far too close together. Today, our famous tree man came to take half of them out.

There was a moment, as he was taking them down, when I thought, 'oh no, what have we done?' But now that I've gotten a little used to it, I thin it's good. The remaining trees will fill in, and we have an opportunity to underplant with fruit trees, berry bushes, and a perrenial border, which would have been impossible in the deep shade the willows cast.

And, in the house, it's no longer so dark, even though it was cloudy much of the day today (will it EVER stop raining?!).

Check another item off the list. The trees have been thinned. Off to vacation, then on to the next item on the list!