I could not have said it better! Jane and I feel the same way about our woods each and every season brings its own beauty (even this winter). Time cutting can be some of the best as we walk talk and check to see what trees need to be cut.
I cut in my dad's woods. Looks like locust post's pic. The only limit is my ambition, and my ×+==€£ knees. Bear hunter, where are you at? I'm out west of Winchester.
I cut at my place and sometimes my dads place. I have tried to get it around me at the neighbors places but for whatever reason around here people think a tree laying in the woods is a solid chunk of gold. I asked a guy about a tree in his front yard that was down at one point and he kept saying he might cut it up. Fast forward three years and it is rotted and weeds grown up around it still laying in his front yard. I don't get it at all sometimes.
I'm blessed to have a wooded lot and spend a lot of time counting my blessings as I walk through the woods studying all the trees, looking for the next ones that should end up in my stacks.
Mostly oaks, maples and hickorys with a few tulip, sasafrass, cherry, Aspen and few others. The snow we had made everything look pretty! ... I imagine it's a little different selection in Idaho. It's all good though.