Twenty kilometres on the other side of the newly-revealed hillside behind our house, is Oslo. Last night I took some pictures, with the city lights reflected off some low cloud. They weren’t especially ‘composed’ — it was almost too dark to see through the viewfinder — but that’s a nice change. The light came out much oranger than what I saw (I thought it was lavender). I’m not sure what would cause the colour to change. They were long exposures, ten seconds at least.
A Bad Guide 
They didn’t pull out the stumps.
That’s the first thing the Scandinavians did when they settled in Wisconsin–pulled the stumps so they could farm. I suppose they did it with mules or something.
I’m glad you can see the stumps, though I didn’t want to make them too bright. I’ve been removing them on our side of the road because they take years to rot by themselves. They’re going to grow more trees there eventually. In the meantime cows will graze ((& goats).
How do you get the stumps out?
My dear departed husband once wanted to remove a stump from the neighbor’s yard, and since I wasn’t home at the time, decide to use my car (not his).I ended up replacing the transmission.
Depending on what you want to use the trees for, grazing cows might not be good for the trees. When we harvested a walnut tree from my in-laws’ property there was a big discussion about whether some cows that had grazed there for a year of two some 50 years previous would have compacted the soil and made the wood unusable. (The lumber turned out to be good.)
I’ve just removed them down to the ground with a chain saw & then covered the remains with some earth.
That’s interesting, Nij. I don’t think there will be any walnut trees planted here. They’ll plant more spruce, but a different kind, one with fewer small branches low down (to make it less scratchy for the cows).