Rocks and roses

Last week while walking the property Sandy discovered some rocks she thought might be useful at the barn. Today she took me to see them.

Holy cow! Some of them are huge. The rock next to the fallen tree below is about 6 feet across one way and about 8 feet the other. Maybe some day we can get it dragged down the hill to use in building a dam below the spring. I doubt it would be worth the effort of moving it up the hill.



Apparently not wanting to waste the walk, Sandy decided to whack off a large multiflora rose. This is one of Indiana's most invasive exotic plants. We have them scattered around the property. They're not a big problem yet, but we don't want them to get ahead of us.

The species is such a problem in the state that it is against Indiana State Law to plant any variety of Rosa multiflora without a permit issued by the director of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources' Division of Entomology & Plant Pathology (IC 14-24-12-5).

One of the smaller large rocks can be seen in this picture also.