Worked Along the Trail

The weather finally cooperated yesterday, although around 8:30, there was a chance of snow at 9:

We returned to the part of the Trail of Cedars where the Lombardy poplar fell on February 10. I got the date of the fall from Ray, who lives in one of the houses adjacent to the park. He had mentioned that although the trail had been cleared of the fallen tree and therefore usable, there was still quite a mess and to make the long story short, and to put it one way, I guess I sort of volunteered our services. Anyway, Jim and I weeded as much creeping buttercup in the adjacent area as we could. This area is the same as the last photo in the Feb. 26 post below. Since the buttercup in this spot hadn't spread to the stage where there was a blanket of them, it seemed like a good area to get rid of the creeping buttercup anyway.

After cardboarding the area, Jim and Gary wheelbarrowed most of our remaining mulch we had along Meridian and I started to place some of the storm debris on top. Gary is below chopping some of that into smaller pieces.

After shifting some of the broken branches, what we discovered was that some of the lower branches of a cedar had actually been pinned down by fairly large pieces of the poplar. Below is a photo of a freed branch. I think we need to return to this "project" later to assess what we did. I was glad to get some work done finally since cancelling due to weather was getting to be a drag. Around 10:30 we had a bit of hail. An hour later, there were strong gusts of wind but that didn't last so we worked until 12:30 or so.