Up the Street and Around the Corners

Lopper Man had a job to do just a couple houses up the street.  The driveway is capable of containing the clippings from the whole hedge, but I only did the sidewalk-facing side.

Cindi Lopper has been getting into the act as well.

 

  Evidence of Lopper Man's cousin, The Buffalo Pothole Bandit made a visit to Ithaca and helped out the thousands of drivers who turn onto Columbia Street from South Aurora.  This one was deep, with little option to avoid it on the narrow, one-way section.  Homer has never been hiding in any shrub I cut back.

  Didn't need to go up the street for this poppy.  Hundreds adorned the garden this year from the end of June to the end of July.

  I have to go around the corner for the largest living American Chestnut tree.  The top is still looking healthy.

  The principal Six Mile Creek Natural Area steward threatened to quit after a tough day of work interrupted by several scofflaw dog owners.  The threat got results and several signs went up within hours.

  Trying to keep Roxy fit.

 

  Thanks to efforts from some Ithaca College staff and volunteers, the trails from campus to Buttermilk State Park are now clear again.  I admired old and new stones at Buttermilk, a bridge from way back, and fresh stone waiting to be sent across the gorge on a cable to be placed in the Gorge Trail.

   The extension of the South Hill Rec Way is underway.  I missed the most recent workday so I don't know how it looks east of Burns Road, but on a hot one from Banks, progress got to the first of at least two washouts in need of new bridges.  We'll get there, wherever There is.

   And back down the street.  New student, tourist, or returning local?

   At the end of the street, Gail and I have heard some yelling coming from across the gorge.  This post came up on FB a few hours after I heard him one day.