Well, I made the mistake of jogging and doing some push ups before moving this one into the red neck studio. You'll be glad to know that I didn't poop my pants and my shorts are still intact, but my hands were shaking so much that I couldn't hold the camera still...sorry for the somewhat blurry pics. The obligatory beer bottle is down to the right on the first photo...don't give me any grief over the choice as I'm on a pseudo vacation and it's only 9 am. The last shot is from the deck...this one is gonna be completely covered in a few days.
Nah. There are two main branches moving to the left. The lowest one is only a few years old and needs to thicken up a bit then may get cut back slightly. The upper one won't get touched.
I got home yesterday after almost a week away to find this one just past full bloom....kind of a bummer missing the show since I'm gonna be removing all the flowers shortly.