Yard Work
/I had a high-priority bit of yard work to do after we set up the bunkbed frame for the camping gear: clear out the regrowth of the invasive pear tree in the crepe myrtle. On closer inspection there was another plant that was not the crepe myrtle also growing around the base.
I got my pruners and gauntlet gloves out…took the wheelbarrow to ease moving what I cut. I noticed that the poison ivy had regrown under the cedar on my way and pulled it. There was part of it that had grown up into the cedar enough to put out rootlets!
It didn’t take long to cut all the green on the pear sump and pull/cut the other plant too. The wheelbarrow was about half full. I cut one of the larger branches of the crepe myrtle because my attempt to brace it had not worked.
I opted to leave the cuttings in the wheelbarrow to dry out/reduce their bulk before I put them in the compost ring. I left the wheelbarrow on the patio under the deck and decided to photograph the longer crepe myrtle stem in the red wagon.
The red wagon had been under the stairs during recent rains and has some water in it – which is emptied out. I (thankfully) didn’t see any mosquito larvae in the water but there was a skeletonized leaf that stuck to the wagon when I poured the water off.
Took pictures of the bark, flowers, buds, and forming seed pods of the crepe myrtle…. appreciating the ease of my phone for some quick macros.
A little bit of yard work…that morphed into a photo shoot!
