Cold, wet and windy. Not ideal weather for shearing, bees, or gardening and sadly all the storms have done damage to some of the trees.
The only upside is that after a morning spent with the chainsaw clearing up the fallen branches we have a trailer load of firewood to put away to season.
Most of the trees to lose branches were sycamore and ash. One damson tree split in two and another was damaged by branches falling from a sycamore.
There are lots of lichens on the branches as you can see from the above photos.
They are great bio-indicators of air purity and only grow profusely where there is no air pollution. Good, clean Westmeath air!
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