The Barrett Pear tree dies

New Year's Storms

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Length: 09:11

The New Year came riding in on a wind storm, killing old and young trees. The crew comes in to work their music and magic Read the full description.

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Playing: New Year's Storms
From: Muriel Murch

Img_0722_2_small The climate changes, a wind storm blows and trees die, Watching a tree crew work is like watching an orchestra play a symphony. Beauty in rhythm and motion.

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The climate changes, a wind storm blows and trees die, Watching a tree crew work is like watching an orchestra play a symphony. Beauty in rhythm and motion.

Transcript

January 2012

The ground is dry, the meadows and hillsides are still brown, as if covered with an old discarded lace curtain of last summers dead grass. There is little green on the hills or in the valleys. The last good rain was in November and the sun shines as if still in autumn and not the middle of winter. Those of us who have worked a particular land for forty years will swear on any book that the weather patterns are changing. Last weekend we walked the buffs over the RCA headlands where the first of the wild iris’ are already showing off their bright purple tripods. Post parturent cows suckle their calves but there is only scrub grasses to feed both mother and child.
The night of December 31st blew in the new year with a nighttime wind storm that pulled down trees and smashed fences. On the farm a mature pear tree grown specifically for it’s brilliant red autumn foliage buckl...
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