High, leafy trees ...

Good morning Tuesday!

I hope that you have had a great weekend.

I am sure most of you have experienced a lot of lovely sunshine this weekend. The Indian summer in the Nordic region of our world seems to be a really, really lovely one.  

Downright warm here as well, but in a nicer kind of way than during the peak of summer.

Peter and I hung on the deck a lot. The deck might be stripped of its summer decorations now, but the table, its chairs and the lounge chairs will be around until mid-October. However, one can really tell that the sun sets earlier every night. The sun is not blasting down on the deck in the evenings anymore.

Peter and I have also prepped for a fun trip that lays right around the corner (more about that one later this week). 

We took walks. And, I devoured one of the biggest burgers I have ever had, me thinks.

It was huge, and very tasty. 

I am sure that some of you guys know the restaurant chain, Denny’s.

Denny’s is sorta like a diner and they serve brekkie all day long. But they also serve other foods, like burgers and sandwiches.

You can not see in the pic hos HUGE this burger really is. This burger turned out to be the only real meal of the day. I think I’ll lay low on burgers for a while now.

 

It looks like a normal burger, but it was HUGE!!  This pic cannot even begin to describe it.

Thanks for all the comments about my neighborhood. 

You are all so SWEET!! 

Yes, I love living here. I am thankful each and every day for being able to live in this area. It is something so special to have all this nature, and all the walking paths, right outside my doorstep.

Will we ever move? Time will tell. But we are not moving anywhere anytime soon, rest assured. 

A backside of living in an environment surrounded by old, leafy trees are that some of them sometimes just decide to give up and die. 

That without any warning.

This is especially true for the tulip poplar trees in our area.

Two of our neighborhood families had a devastating weekend. All of a sudden on Saturday, a poplar tree fell right on their houses, it shattered its windows and sliding glass doors, it destroyed their upper levels and their decks.

The good thing is, none of them were upstairs when this happened. If they had been there, they would likely have died. This very tulip poplar tree looked as healthy as can be, but after it fell one could see that it was totally hollow inside. 

Tulip poplars are common here, we have several big ones right outside our house. My father in law, Pete, experienced the same thing with a tulip poplar right outside of his back yard, that tree just gave up and fell. These trees are creepy, they look like they are thriving, but they can be completely spoken for and they can just fall at any moment.  When the huge tulip poplar fell over the neighbors houses it was zero winds, sunny and as nice it could be weather wise.   UNNERVING.

 

Tulip poplars right outside our deck.

Also right outside our deck.

I am always a bit scared when it is really, really stormy out there. Both Peter and I have in mind that one of this tall, mature trees can fall over the house at any moment.

May it never, ever happen.

And now it is a new week. Have a good one, y’all!!