And now, the front yard

A "quick trip" past the house tonight turned into a walk in the back woods, and for the first time, a walk in the front yard woods. There's so much out the back yard that we're naturally drawn that way and have pretty much ignored the front yard. Until tonight.

As we pulled out of the driveway, I stopped the car and walked over to something we'd never noticed until today: A clearing in the front woods, roughly 30 feet wide by 70 feet long. There are saplings coming up about 3-4' high and a mix of groundcover, but this was obviously a very intentional clearing that someone made at one point in time, and given the age/height of the saplings, it hasn't been all that long ago.

We ran into NDN out riding his bike (not literally. wouldn't be very neighborly of us), who didn't have much background to offer on the clearing. It's a curiosity, but rather than just let it grow wild, I think we might try to do something with it. We'll see.

Curious finds: off to the west side of the clearing there are several trees, some of which are tulip trees, that are mostly dead, and some new ones that are flourishing. It's strange to me to see a cluster of all one variety of tree, and all dead (given no other disease apparent nearby). Oh yeah, we have wild raspberries in the clearing. Big Red and Little Red will love this, but they'll probably have to fight the birds for these.

I made another trip back to the creek as well and tried to get some audio of sounds of the woods on my phone, but I don't think it's going to transfer well. I got some audio of the well splashing into the creekbed, but for now it just sounds like crinkling paper. Hopefully we can get something cleaner to share - - it's a great sound.

So next post I'll talk about the property lines and getting disoriented in the woods.