Another one down

We went out for a quick turnaround trip this weekend, leaving Alexandria on Saturday night and spending the day on Sunday, having a nice Easter lunch with some visiting friends. In a later post, I will start a new series called "Signs o' Spring" and snap shots of flowers that bloom at the cabin and at the Alexandria house....



During my normal walk of the lot on Sunday morning, I found that we had another tree down. There are a couple of interesting things about this. First, it is the same species of pine as the other downed tree (which we haven't cleaned up yet and need to), except that this tree was clearly dying, where the other seemed healthy. There are four or five more of these trees located around the lot, with two other evergreen species appearing in similar numbers.



The second thing about this tree's falling is the direction of its fall - in the first photo here, taken from near the earlier fall, you can see that the new trees lies almost parallel with the earlier one.



This tree is further downhill, and while it was on our lot, it now straddles ours and extends into a neighboring unbuildable lot near the little Beaver Run stream. In the second photo, you can see the little stone bridge that the road runs across the stream on, courtesy of the Commonwealth.