Our local meteorologist, Larry Green, maintains taht Indian summer is a technical term for a warm period following the first hard freeze in the fall. Of course here in Denver we don't need to wait for the first day of fall for a hard freeze. Some yeras ago we had a snowstorm on seventh September that broke down so many trees we had to organize to clean up the neighborhood. We piled branches ten feet deep on a five acre site in the center of the neighborhood. That's a LOT of branches. The city mulched them for us, and the mulch pile itself was estimated at over 50 tons.

This may not seem like much to many people, but this is an area where no trees grow naturally, and the ones that are here are expensive to cultivate and maintain.


TEd