Rear Garden Refresh

Along the back fence line we had three big spruces that afforded us privacy from the rear neighbors. But age, disease, weather and water were not their friend. After one fell down and the second came perilously close to falling down, we ended taking them out April. My previous posts, "Another Tree Toppled" and "Spruce … Continue reading Rear Garden Refresh

Spruce Down :(

Like many across the Midwest and Northeast, we had an extremely windy week last week. On Wednesday at O'Hare airport, they measured gusts of 58 mph which was the highest since 1991, coincidentally the year we moved to Chicago. In my neighborhood, gusts of 62 mph were observed and the average sustained wind speed was … Continue reading Spruce Down 🙁