Stones

December 27 - Today was frustrating.  Berne had asked the excavator to set aside some large stones that he unearthed.  Alyssa had gone out one cold night and with much difficulty dug out some large stones by hand and set them aside with some other large stones dug up by the excavator.  Well, they are all gone, except three small ones Alyssa dug up (below).  Alyssa had landscaping plans for the stones, and saw the stones as a kind of compensation for the destruction of our side garden.  Stones like that are very expensive to buy, and it is difficult to find ones that match the stones we have dug up and used elsewhere in our garden. 

Our large hydrangea and spirea shrubs as well as other perennials are decimated.  Our second hydrangea (and many of the lilacs) has damage to it's branches, but it should recover.  We'll see what might have survived come spring.