Inching towards 200,000!

Poking our nose out to say we should be hitting 200,000 unique views on this blog sometime in the next 24 hours!!!!

 

Wordless Wednesday #80

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Grassing things up

Added about eight linear feet of static grass to the area north of Williams Creek Bridge. I decided the "almost straw" grass colors looked pretty good, but it needed a little something to give it a bunch in a couple of spots - the answer was some bright red Sumac by the embankment. Next step - fence line and telegraph poles. I might add an old stone fence in the woods, almost overgrown by brush, but that will have to wait until after the Cocoa Beach meet. 

I also added some more trees to the ridge behind the Waterbury freight house and feed mill. We arrived in town to catch the sugar maples at their peak - truly "electric maples" - they are the brightest on the layout. (And yes, I know the freight house needs a roof before the winter…!)

Trees, trees, and more trees….

I made some trees over the holiday weekend last week. 

Today I planted some of them. 
The lead photo shows the trees in the transition area between the "peak" colors and the "past peak" colors. 
Next step is some static grass in the foreground.