Bradford pear root and branch, twigs, leaves, sticks, chunks, random shop scrap - how brightly it will burn!
All it took was a bit of scrap paper and voom!
It didn't take long to burn down to this:
At night it looked like this:
Who brought the marshmallows?
It is still smoking this morning, and I hope, burning out the silver maple stump that the fire pit is built on.
We had a nice sunset, probably due to all the extra smoke I put into the atmosphere:
Nice sunrise this morning, too:
No, wait, that was a couple of days ago, but it is still a good one.
My Mexican sunflowers are blooming - they are a treat this time of year. They are growing next to a white oak tree I transplanted from my old place - they hitched a ride in the root ball and are currently taller than the oak tree. Cool!






