It's A Barren Wasteland

This is another view of the yard taken from the parking pad looking across the yard at the neighbors cabin. That whole barren area used to be filled with tiny pine tree saplings and weeds. We discovered after our first summer that weed abatement and fire prevention were big concerns up here so , we cleared a lot of the greenery out of this area but, looking at the yard now we were wondering if we had done such a good thing. That is an American Sycamore on the far right up by the street, in the fall it turns a beautiful gold. In the same area we had to put sandbags because there is no curb to direct the rainwater and it washes out that side of the yard. Towards the middle of the bottom of the photo there are still some pieces of asphalt from the driveway.