Year 1 to Year 16, change in perspective

Snapshots in time allow us to see how much things change.  Rarely do we have enough of those snapshots to look at how much things change.  I found  some photos from when Fall of 2000  giving me a place in time to see how much things have matured and changed.  In March of this year, we recreated each of those photos to compare moments in time.

It's easy to forget about how large trees and have become and how the field of vision changes.

First Tee then...
The Clubhouse was under construction.

Now....

 

Fifth tee then...

Now...

The 7th Tee then... 
This picture is before the Fall of 2000, no seed had been planted.  You might remember the large tree right of the Championship tee, that has since been removed to make room for a new Aldarra Tee.

Now...

Eleventh tee then...

Now... Years of Alder removal.

The 12th tee then...

Now.... What an improvement without the Alders.

The 16th tee then....

 
Now...
The tree in the foreground on the right has been removed since taking this picture.  The growth left of the fairway is remarkable.

The 18th tee then...

 

Now...

GOATS

In June of this year we rented a few furry friends (nearly 250 goats) to help control vegetation near the 7th tee in an effort to improve the aesthetics of this area.

 



The pictures from then and now span a time of 16 years.  The goats stayed for one week and how quickly we forget what it looked like before.

Work still needs to be done to see the project to the end.  Goats removing blackberries makes for happy maintenance crew members and a head start heading into the Fall to complete this project. 

The goal moving forward is to use the herd from Healing Hooves each year for vegetation control purposes.