It’s March and I have been cutting and stacking firewood for the next heating season.

All the trees I’ve cut this year are windfalls from the past two years. This is wood from a large red oak snag that had been dead for years next to a road on our property. Last spring it blew down over the road and I finished cutting and stacking it this year. Since the tree had been dead for so long the wood has dried out quickly and shows a number of cracks on the ends of the split pieces.