Tar Spot on Maples

(Photo: PA Education Extension, extension.psu.edu)

I spent six hours working in my yard and garden yesterday.  In a normal spring, six hours would have gone a long way toward clearing away the dead of winter, this year with a lack of fall clean up and my slow speed setting, it hardly made a dent.

Marshaling my strength, cutting back last years's detrius, then raking a and bagging a while, punctuated by dragging bags over to the municipal compost site allowed me to give different muscle groups and joints rest.  It probably also builds my stamina.

I am always reminded of the Chinese proverb, (paraphrased), "Even an ant can move a mountain, one grain at a time."

I am so totally with that ant this year.