A walk in the woods

The woods above our house September 2010

The Good Hope Mine September 2010

















The Good Hope Mine with Keating, May '03

Today I finally went up in to the woods in back
of our house. At first it didn't look too bad.
Many of the trees were burned, but not so
severely that they are doomed. Then we went
further and it was awful. I broke down and
wasn't sure I could go on and see the rest of
it, but decided to get it over with. Jeanne,
Robert and I went on to the Good Hope Mine,
aka The Apple Tree Mine. Robert thinks the
apple tree, although very burned, may come
back in the spring. It sits over a spring
so always has wet roots. We'll hope it
survives.