I’m practically to the back-neighbor’s house!

The two big shrubs used to be four. We lost the other two in the derecho ("straight-line hurricane") of May ’09. When we moved in almost 16 years ago, those big shrubs were much smaller. Two or three strings of Christmas lights and I was done with one shrub.

Well, the two survivors are taller and much larger in girth now. Now it's 7 or 8 strings of lights! So when I took down the lights today, I decided to walk away with the end of the string and here I am with what it takes to string one shrub now.

SOOC with the point-and-shoot and the only frame I shot today.
The only lazier post is not taking a photo at all!

I think the shrubs are “American Arborvitae” or “White Cedar” (“Thuja occidentalis”). I should get them firmly ID’ed. (That'll be another lazy post…)
» Species page at PhytoImages.siu.edu: http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Thuja_occidentalis&rank=binomial

1 year ago (“‘microSD’ really means *micro*!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-01-12
2 years ago (“Spira mirabilis”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-01-12
3 years ago (“Yellow = ‘Caution’”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-01-12
4 years ago (“Lights, camera, no-action!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-01-12

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