The Leather Oaks Garden -- Katrina and Renewal ! !

Renewal, Debris Removal and other Discoveries

This Page Created on February 6th, 2008

We had an awful lot of trouble even reaching Neptune's Knoll. Let's check again up there and see if there's been any progress. Is that his pond off to the left?

Well, he's still turned a trifle off center, but if he's happy . . . And believe it or not, the fish in his pond survived! I know, there's still lots of debris, but its time will come, too.

Somewhere under all of the pine branches and oak leaves, there should be a stream. Isn't Fazzio Falls just a short way up stream from the Bridge over Lake Orin?

Keep digging, guys, it's under there somewhere!

Looking upstream towards Seasons Springs. The gray clay at the lower right shows how close the area came to losing another Live Oak tree.

Mercy, the Rubber Creek is dry. Nothing like it for over ten years, I'd say.

Well, it seems that Diver's Deep hasn't completely dried up. Of course, I believe they have their own little spring, which may be helping things. The Celebrated Pewter Spitting frog must be conserving his resources.

The workers clearing the downed trees on my lot sure had a sense of humor. Here's the result of the fence line debris toss. Thing is, this was the back fence, and no one was going to be coming along in a big truck to remove all of it. Hey guys, excuse me! I DO need to get to my back fence, you know . . . !
You know, somehow they weren't laughing when it took three men half a day to retrieve all of that stuff and haul it to the road.

If it wasn't for the corner of my garage in the background, this would be a hard photo to identify. Season's Springs is pretty close to the house to be so remote in the removal process. At least some progress seems to have been made. I guess that cut branch is one that the guys dropped when doing the fence line debris toss.