Carolina Pine Forest in our Back Yard
Posted by Patrick on Monday, May 28, 2007This weekend we finally finished planting trees in our back yard. You may recall that in March my folks stopped by and left us with some high quality pine trees. Over the past... several... weekends we dug and dug and hauled the earth, put trees in the ground, and put a stone border down and mulched the whole thing. 
Seventeen trees. Seventeen. Seventeen holes in what has to be the thickest, reddest, heaviest dirt we've ever seen. We used both machine and pick ax to try and work through it and have the blisters to prove it. 
There were also a lot of rocks in the ground. We filled several bucketfulls. We finally put them on our back porch while we think of something to do with them, or a place to dump them.
The end results were well worth it. We have a whole row of trees in our back yard. In fact, the whole row stretches so far that I couldn't fit it in a single camera shot and/or we don't have a wide angle lens. I did manage a poor photoshopping of two images so you can sort of see how it came out. 
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