I mowed at the beginning of May and then let everything grow, today I mowed the grass but left most of the wildflowers.
Yeah, that's what we did this year. The clay soil here is very erosive and we figured we'd just let the stuff that wants to grow, grow. Grass doesn't do well in our shady yard, except some zoysia that crept over from across the lane.
An older guy that I've been helping get OTA TV, so that he can cut the cord, called me. I've been involved in some other stuff, so haven't got back over there to tweak the temporary setup I left him with so that he could check it out and decide if he wanted to definitely get rid of pay TV. When I was last there, he showed me a Shingle Oak that had fallen in his woods, and the top came into his yard a ways.
He finally needed to get it out of the way so that he could mow the slow-growing area.
I met my buddy Vista Guy over there, and he took a load home in his van, and there are a couple more loads yet to get, part of which you see stacked in rounds here. There was a broken Assafras next to it, but the guy's shop is right there so it looks like a tree-man job..
Top of the Shingle Oak, rounds we cut, and the remaining trunk of the uprooted tree in the woods. We'll get a bit of the trunk, but Vista guy is getting close to having three years' worth stacked, so we won't go after the rest of the trunk, which is on steeper ground. Trunk down close to the root ball is maybe two foot diameter, so it would be a bit of work getting it up outta there.

Busted Sass, snapped about 10' up.
