Cattle photos and Willow tree trimming

No new calves today.

Here are a few photos of the cattle resting in the corral this morning.  The calves were all sleeping soundly.

I trimmed some branches off the willow trees along the river.   My fencing around the tree trunks are working as I now have made it two years without the beavers chewing on these trees.   Prior to the beavers the trees were a trunk with branches to the side.  When the trees recovered they shot up numerous branches.  It is hard to get just a single branch up to become a tree trunk.  The trees are now more like bushes than a typical tree.  To help the trees to become more like trees I trimmed some of the branches off.  Over time - years - I may get the trees to become more like a tree than a bush.  I don't want to cut most of the branches in one year as a single branch left could get damaged by the wind if the branch isn't accustomed to bend in the wind by itself if it hasn't done it before.

Before and after photos.  From a distance the trees similar in the before and after photos.

One of the four trees in the above photo.

Another tree further down the river.   Before and after.

Close up view of the trunk after I trimmed some branches.  Prior to my trimming there were more branches than open space, and a number of branches inside the fence.  It took time to trim the branches.

Some of the branches cut.