What's Left of the Bradford Pear

My dad cut the broken limb off and cut it up into perfect pieces to take camping with us for a campfire. You can buy bundles of wood there for 5.00, but it is usually pine or poplar and burns up very quickly. The picture shows the original split in the tree that I found a few weeks ago. We have to take the rest down soon...

Split Bradford Pear

We had high winds here on the mountain the other day and they split my Bradford Pear tree... Oddly enough, there was a large split at the bottom of the branches, however, the split was on the other branch. We cleaned up the broken branch and will have to take the rest of the tree down soon. Bradford Pear trees are known to have soft wood and break easily.

Winter and Cardinals

We have so many poplar trees here on the mountain and the birds are blessed with their seeds through the winter. The cardinals love them. We watch them through the window take a single poplar seed and run it through their beaks to get to the seed in the end. The other day, we were looking outside and there were several cardinals perched in the top part of our Bradford Pear tree outside the front window. It's nice to see that out of all the spaces on the mountain, they chose our tree right outside our window to rest so we could admire them and watch them. We are blessed!