The hydro people cut down a few trees that were intruding into their hydro easement last fall. Two of them were large Cottonwood poplars and three of them were maples. Unfortunately one of them was my pig tree, so I've lost my piggy that was slowly getting swallowed by the tree. The cottonwood poplars were very large and when they came down they damaged a spruce tree, a maple tree and a bunch of sumac in the 2009 planting area.
It is an early start to spring. The snow is mostly gone, the buds are swelling and the grass is starting to green up. The starlings in the bushes across the Huntclub were making quite a racket as we walked along the path today. Other years I probably wouldn't notice them nearly as much but the reduction in road noise due to the coronavirus shutdown has been quite significant.
