Appalachia in Georgia 'foot hills'-summer changes to winter

It is true Scott.
The leaves have finally stopped falling. Can finally slow down w/the back pack blowers.

Lot of leaves. 397,902,183,895 pounds of them(when dry). x12.3 when wet. The oak leaves can they say have growth inhibitors to keep the competition from growing under them and stealing nutrients. Rough on gardens

Dog eat dog world wherever you go.

The second to the last picture shows two perfect white oak trees for firewood except the right one has too many healed over knots making splitting arduous at best.

White oak is eat up w/BTU's. Will run you out of the house. Smells yucko when splitting, great when burning.

Most of the trees in the photos fallen across the creek are from a tornado that left a path of fallen large oaks and a couple of Beech trees about 6 years ago. More that i could burn.The path of destructo was
300' to 800' south of the house pushing all over to the east.So a wind out of the west. I was here. It was obnoxious. Guessing a tornado, could have been a down burst but did not act like one.

This is a sweet smelling Beech tree that i am cutting up to dry for next year. A victim of the same storm. It laid over and kept growing. Will add some of this to the wood stove for great smell.
It is a big tree. This is the canopy i am whittling thru. It is about 28 inches thru at chest level. This is one of the heaviest woods, denser than dense.It is growing next to the creek down at the base.
And laying horizontal it was a perch for those the needed to relieve themselves. Namely raccoons. They eat anything. Please see the article on 'turids of the wild'; a favorite photo subject.

The richest garden in Texas. Bet your tomatoes are delicious. leaves makes em taste great.

A small portion of Snuffy's harvest

Thanks Brad. I wish it was all forest and nothing to mow. Come by if you are ever passing by or are laid over at Atlanta airport.

That first photo looks like I imagine Eden to have been.

Rich

You want scenery? Camp W. of Mcdermitt, NV.

Love the still woods, James. Those comparisons are very pleasing. You folks that get to burn hardwoods are much envied by us creosote encrusted northerners.

I dropped in from google earth and looked at posted photos to see what Larry's Mcdermitt territory is about. I am ready to go there. Yes, the rocks are strewn out for easy pickins.

And the scenery is out of control. I see why you and Carol hang out there. I spent time in Kamloops BC. And burned up. That is a hot place.

So i bet it gets hot down there.

We had a pine tree a couple feet thru out back that got damaged by a heavy snow one evening, it died after a couple years. Let it stand 'till the needles fell off. A co-worker needed some wood, and I owed him a favor, so I gave him some. We didn't notice it as open fire wood, but he said in the stove in his shop it had so much sap it was like burning an old tire, very hot and smoky. This was a coast pine probably brought over the hill by original place owners. Burns like wadded up paper.