How was your holiday? Did you once again make the best of yet another one with Covid all around you? So many had to endure yet another Christmas with a loved one now gone and their spot at the table empty.
I am sorry for your loss.
We have had ice then a few inches of snow on top of it and yes underfoot it can be treacherous but, on the trees, it is very pretty and if you have enough light to capture it with it can also be pretty in a photograph. These images just don’t do it justice.
That snag in the foreground used to be a gorgeous Weeping Willow but with the windstorm in November its top half came crashing down. The beavers caused this trees demise by girthing the tree (chewing all around the base) and now 8-10 years later it has given up its fight.
You see Beavers love eating Willow trees and this one was over 30 years old. I planted 3 more in the lower corner where they flood my land constantly and I also added fencing around all 3 saplings as I battled mother nature but one night the water rose, and they swam right up and topped two of my three new trees. Willows are tough when they have a supply of water, but they will not be gorgeous as the pruning they did was all wrong, lol you just can’t fight it can you, mother nature that is.
Thankfully I have the tools to clean the area up to keep us safe but still on this for 3 hours takes its toll. One good thing is it usually doesn’t snow every day lol
Stay safe everyone and as we ring in, yet another year, do what you can to be here next year (next week).
Happy New Year Everyone
Eunice
Folsom Mill Studio/Eunice Miller 
How lucky the trees and critters on your land have you to care.
Thanks How are you? Pain mostly gone now?
Nice photos, the snow sure is pretty. Happy New Year, Eunice!
Happy New Year and thank you.
Lovely images! The mama and papa cardinals are such beautiful gifts this time of year.
Thank you and I am blessed with so many
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Cold but beautiful. Happy & Healthy New Year Eunice!
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Thank you, Cindy let’s, pray this bs ends soon and the world goes back to a kinder time.
We had to spend Christmas in separate places thanks to Covid!
So sorry 😦
I think I understand how you feel to help the trees from those ‘professionals’ (beavers). I called these critters (such in my case slugs that I often see coming to eat plants) ‘professionals’ as they are so good at what they are doing. But I still like them.
Please stay safe as well. Happy New Year (a little ahead).
Happy New Year to you as well. When I didn’t live along a river, I never gave them much thought but when they dropped a Poplar on my house it became personal, I guess 🙂 mind you they cleaned it all up before I could get the oil in the chainsaw and back to the house lol busy beavers for sure on a mission of their own.
Pretty! And you’re right… you can’t fight nature as it will always do what it wants! Take care and Happy New Year Eunice!
Happy New Year Cathy