Enjoy Black Fox Hollow

My hope for this page is to provide a journal in pictures as #BlackFoxHollow  changes through the seasons, new plants are discovered and young trees grow.  This is looking toward the southern corner.  

 The bleakness of winter has set in.  We’ve had some beautiful days, but they have been bitter cold.   Even on the coldest and bleakest day, I love to walk the trails through Black Fox Hollow.  It doesn’t look like much in this picture, but this is a portion of the #nursery nearest to the fallen #MotherTree.  In this picture are  Rough Leaf Dogwood, American Elm and Green Ash.  All of them are at 

  This is what’s left of our beautiful Mother Tree. The root ball is about half the size it originally was.  I keep removing earth and trimming roots. My goal is to get all of the earth out from the roots and leave only a portion of the Mother Tree as a memorial. The rest was given to people who could make use of the wood in their farms or homes. It is hard to see the depth of the sink hole, but I

Our home, which I call our 'cabin in the woods', sits about twenty feet above the hollow on a natural outcropping of 3.5 million year old limestone.