When we were last up north at the land, things looked very different.  The nice winter clean look has given way to a jungle-like appearance!

We are learning more about what we have up there now.  If I was a bird or an animal I would be delighted.  The place is overgrown with raspberry bushes, strawberry plants are everywhere, and there are small plum trees.  A friend told us we may not ever harvest the strawberries and plums.  They are small and the birds and animals get them pretty quickly.  As for the raspberry bushes, I did not feel bad about cutting some of those down to get a clearing.  They are all over the land!

Just like the tall ferns that now line everything!  They, too, need to be tamed a bit.

I think it’s going to be a very gradual process.  Taking some from the land so we have a place to be without a crazy amount of ticks and mosquitos and black flies, yet leaving a whole lot in its natural woodsy state that we fell in love with.