Yesterday, a day of beautiful, glistening ICE! I planned ahead and had no place to go. But oh those loud SNAPS, and CRACKS. I knew that at the very least that sound meant a tree had lost a limb.

Or even worse a tree was down. Or a tree was down across the lane, or the road.

And that was the case many times over. The top photo is of a large Sassafras tree being hugged by a Flowering Dogwood. The bottom image, the same pair, close up. The Sassafras had lost its battle with a wood borer several years ago. Yesterday the ice brought it down. Right across the lane. The required “key” to exit, a chainsaw.

As luck would have it, the road down the mountain is a state maintained road and they take very good care of that road and its residents. Ah, living in the mountains. I wouldn’t have it any other way.