Oliver's Woods is Falling Down

Wow, what a lot of change in the Woods! First time in there in a few weeks.
The western central Woods has had a half dozen of it largest old bur oak snags fall this past month, taking down middle-aged elms and green ash with them.  In more than a decade of visiting the Woods, I've never seen this much windfall and change. The big bur oaks have been dead from flooding in this section for many years. Their roots have finally rotted away. The wet soil from many 2017 spring rains and the moderately gusty wind storms 20-40 mph have brought many dead trees down and broken, decapitated or crushed the young/ middle-aged elm, green ash and others growing around them. (Potential dendrochronology co-occurrence of good wide ring width intervals from abundant rain and stormy weather, with more scars from falling trees wounding survivors?)
Western trails blocked in two places by one massive bur oak and one other.
Under the big persimmon trees, small urn-shaped off-white flowers are falling. The sound is like the beginning of a light rain shower. Faint pleasant smell of melon.
Around the big pecan trees, there are temporary carpets of spent catkins. Near the cottonwoods, there are small tufts of white cotton drifted to ground. The dark soft organic soil in the west is covered here and there with thousands and thousands of new bright green seeds dropped from green ash. So much effort is spent in reproduction. Now spent and done. Trees are devoting their time and resources toward growth now.
I notice all the abundant animal digging along the west side of the Tree Loop (armadillo?).
The Wash from the Elm Bridge southward is layered in new blonde sand. There must have been a new construction project washout somewhere upstream.