I’ve let Nature have her way with most of my modest six acre lot. What was once farmland, then hay fields, and finally horse pasture, is now a little ‘biome’ of sorts. I’ve watched this go from cedars and Autumn Olive to black cherry, oriental bittersweet and various shrubs, and now with oaks, maple, pine, hickory, sassafras, apple, and other trees added. I’ve even found four holly plants! There are mosses, ivies, wintergreen, and princess pine among the ground covers. Violets and Jack-in-the-Pulpits thrive here along with an abundance of daisies, blue-eyed grasses, and countless other wildflowers. And fungi: from Indian Pipes to Hen of the Woods and so many others in between (and a little fairy ring recently appeared).
Our trail cam has recorded mice and chippies, squirrels and woodchucks, skunks, foxes, rabbits, fishers and bobcats, coyotes (or coywolves, not sure), and, of course, deer :o) The trail cam really made clear that this was a world unto itself!
Developers are threatening all of what was field and forest here. I’m trying to hold on to ours as long as I can.
1967 pre-Google street view
Approximate angle Google street view from Google Earth now
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Date: 2024-11-20 12:52 pm (UTC)What was once farmland, then hay fields, and finally horse pasture, is now a little ‘biome’ of sorts. I’ve watched this go from cedars and Autumn Olive to black cherry, oriental bittersweet and various shrubs, and now with oaks, maple, pine, hickory, sassafras, apple, and other trees added. I’ve even found four holly plants! There are mosses, ivies, wintergreen, and princess pine among the ground covers. Violets and Jack-in-the-Pulpits thrive here along with an abundance of daisies, blue-eyed grasses, and countless other wildflowers. And fungi: from Indian Pipes to Hen of the Woods and so many others in between (and a little fairy ring recently appeared).
Our trail cam has recorded mice and chippies, squirrels and woodchucks, skunks, foxes, rabbits, fishers and bobcats, coyotes (or coywolves, not sure), and, of course, deer :o) The trail cam really made clear that this was a world unto itself!
Developers are threatening all of what was field and forest here. I’m trying to hold on to ours as long as I can.
1967 pre-Google street view
Approximate angle Google street view from Google Earth now