Hi Ya'll. For those who are from the southern portion of the U.S., I wonder if you guys have been considering the environmental impact of the late freeze we had just two weeks ago. All of the trees were in bloom and the leaves were emerging on many species, then, BAM! a deep freeze interrupted everything and burned all the spring emergents, the blossoms, the leaves, all dead.
I was out of town overnight at a cabin in the Smoky mountains and I sat on the deck of the cabin this morning looking out over the ridges all around me and it looked like wintertime. All brown from all that new growth dying and falling off. I pondered the environmental impact of it. Imagine, a huge portion of the Appalachian mountain range and the beautiful, green southern
states, all this was struck by the deep freeze. The trees, in their pollenation stage, were interrupted. The leaves, which produce oxygen, all gone. Because of the interruption of pollenation, there will be many fruit bearing plants that will be barren this season. My two Hackberry trees, which have tiny berries on them in the fall that the birds love, will have no berries.
I think this wide-spread devastation is a bigger deal than we might think. I've never seen it like this. I spoke with an old man in his 70's this week who said he has never seen it like this before. This is huge and the effect of it is profound. Love, Dian.
