A
ghostly apparition; white sheeted and in formation. I took this photo with the highest zoom I could
from where I was.
Beekeepers? Headstones?
Zombies? Couldn’t figure it out
from the little screen on the back of the camera. I thought that might be the best look I was
going to get, but the road wound its way around a rise and I popped right out
next to another section of the mystery; a close-up.
It
appears to be an orchard. We’ve seen a lot
of newly planted orchards, but we’ve never seen one where every tree was
wrapped in a bag. I don’t know why they
wrapped all these trees in bags. Would
they do that as protection against frost or a freeze? They could be isolating the trees to prevent
cross-pollination, but the orchard looks too new to be harvesting a bunch of
fruit. Pest control?
I’m
going to settle my guess on freeze protection.
There are newly planted orchards of thousands of trees near us that were
killed by a freeze last February. Maybe
this is a way to get an orchard safely through its first couple tender years.
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