Lady horticulturist: cleanup and chill

My dear mother got finally persuaded that I could mess with the hedge trimmer as well. My ultimate and quite obvious argument was If you don't let me do it, I'll never learn it.

Also, she has vertigo on the first ladder step and I don't. 

And then, it's fun. It's destructive, not too finicky and things get done.

And then...

... even more destruction.

I also hear that smoke from fragrant herbs is a good protection against various noxious miasmata. Spruce is not a herb but it is fragrant enough and in times o plague...