Xeno wrote:
>John Kootchie wrote:
>>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>>> Orgasmic red maple:
>>> http://i68.tinypic.com/2n1s7kx.jpg
>>> http://i67.tinypic.com/faa6is.jpg
>>> View across the road this morning... look carefully, there's a
>>> rainbow:
>>> http://i66.tinypic.com/2rxhcty.jpg
>>> http://i66.tinypic.com/1265h00.jpg
>>> To enlarge click on picture, close ad, then click on Raw Image.
>>
>> Beautiful Sheldon. But just one big tree in the midst of a suburbanite
>> manicured monoculture? Yuck! I'd rather have a forest!
>>
>Until you discover how bushfires jump from tree to adjacent tree. Sort
>of takes the gloss off living in the forest!

Hairy palmed Kootchie must have stroked himself blind that he can't
see all those 70' Norway spruce... and there are no 100 acre hayfields
in surburbia. The fire safe thing is not to plant ones house within
100 yards of the forest. Even meadows and hay fields present fire
danger, that's why it's across the road with a creek between. Besides
good land mangement for wild life that's another good reason I
maintain a wide lawn between me and the forest. The hardest work I do
around here is keeping the forest from growing back. Now that there's
a chill in the air and the biting bugs have flown off I'll be spending
many hours outdoors with my machete, loppers, bow saw, pole saw, and
chain saw... the forest here grows back fast, it's not easy staying
ahead.