This has been a fairly rough winter. We had at least three separate storms that dumped over a foot of snow. And then just as it looked as if spring was around the corner with a couple of absolutely gorgeous days, we got a storm with a combination of tremendous rainfall and such high winds that more trees than ever before were knocked down. Here is one just a couple of corners from our house that came up with its entire root ball and missed the nearby house only by a bit: Here is one that went...

This has been a fairly rough winter. We had at least three separate storms that dumped over a foot of snow. And then just as it looked as if spring was around the corner with a couple of absolutely gorgeous days, we got a storm with a combination of tremendous rainfall and such high winds that more trees than ever before were knocked down. Here is one just a couple of corners from our house that came up with its entire root ball and missed the nearby house only by a bit: Here is one that went...