Back in the late 1970’s when we moved into our place in McBride, everything you see in the foreground, all the way back to the tall tree you see in the background of the photo, used to be our neighbor’s field and garden. None of the trees you see in the mid-area of the photo were there. Mrs Nail, our lanky elderly neighbor, used to carry water down to the garden to water her vegetables. She stopped gardening later in the 1980’s, and once the land was left alone, Nature moved in.
There is now a thick grove of spruce trees that established themselves at one end, a variety of willows, and cottonwood trees at the other, with tall grasses squeezed in between them. Nature has slowly encroached into, and taken over what used to be her garden. When given a chance to spread, Nature will take advantage of it.
So far this summer we have been getting a lot of showers, and I have been very busy keeping Nature from encroaching and trying to take over our lawn and garden,. I have mowed down numerous tiny aspen trees that have sprouted up from the spread of tree roots, beneath the lawn. I can’t help but think, if I, or future owners of our property, stopped maintaining our lawn and pasture, in a few decades, it too would look like the photo above.
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