I think it shows what a great person you must be and with such caring and devoted friends , you are so Blessed. My neighbors house and one and a half acres are for sale and I sure pray I get someone half as nice as you. I would love to look at stuff like that all day instead of 15 redneck vehicles,a never used trampoline,their chickencoop with plywood leaning against it(which happens to be 10 ft from the pool they never clean)and a flat lawn of weeds.Hope you have a really large yard cuz at the rate you are going you will have so many bears you won't have space to garden!

More Josh?!! OMG! Breath taking! Mike was right! Puts so many photos to shame! Like I said in another thread, the first set of trees, makes me think of Unicorns and white doves! So peaceful!! And Mike! You ratted me out! Boy! ROFL! At least Nancy and Al kept me a secret.. lol! Hi Nancy, Al, Mike! Good to see you all! worth the trip wasn't it! Josh, Al... Awsome songs to quote, made me giggle! I love that music! Can make me feel a little old at times though. LOL! Have a great day everyone! JoJo

Jean001a, after reading about hemlock woolly adelgids I believe you are right. They are concentrated on the bottom of the branches in a manner similar to the pictures I saw on Google. I am wondering if it might be more cost effective to remove the hemlocks entirely and replace them with a different plant? Thoughts on that as well would be greatly appreciated.

We had a family of red foxes living in a rocky hillside next to our screen porch. There was a mom and 3 kits. Needless to say, we had no garden varmints that summer! We'd run from window to window to watch them pounce on mice and chipmunks all over the property. Often they'd run up and down the driveway. They came out after noon and were active from then on. I would find animal parts they dragged into the yard, huge fish skeletons (we live across from a reservoir in Ulster County), duck carcasses and deer legs, etc. It was worth the clean-up just to have them around. They behaved just like puppies. I read that one of each litter will return to the same den next year. Ours didn't. When we had gravel dumped and spread on the driveway, they disappeared. The neighbor shot one that was getting into her chickens, and I saw one dead on our road...very sad. But I found a piece of fabric at Joann's with a perfect picture of those 3 fox kits, which I made into a wall quilt for the porch. Nice memories. That was such a wonderful lifetime experience. We see one now and then along the stone wall, looking for rodents.