The maple right there, right before you get to the bridge - well, take a good look. It isn't there now.
The infamous October snowstorm from nine and a half years ago caused this dear tree to lean toward the house, and another one on the side near the fence had damaged limbs up high. We thought it would be safer to take them down.
This is the tree Dolly and I sit under every summer, with our quilt and music and books and magazines - well, my stuff, but she enjoys the quilt and the music. No more, Dolly.
There is a tree out there the clothesline is attached to, so we do have some backyard shade. And we're wanting to put another two or three trees back there as soon as the stumps get removed. Maybe another ornamental cherry, Japanese maple - nothing too tall.
It was quite something to watch these fellows; they were here seven or eight hours, and it's such hard work. Worth the amount we paid them. And it was arranged that they'd drive the logs up the road to a neighbor who can use them, so that was very tidy.
At the end as they were leaving, a sun shower arrived. Immediately, I started looking for the rainbow.
It was faint, though not as faint as it looks here. But it was heartening to see a rainbow, and now there's nothing to block the view.
It is always so sad when we have to get rid of trees! You did the right thing because having a tree fall on your house is awful and can be fatal. But what a hard decision! We have a silver birch tree in our garden which is so tall and very beautiful but if it fell would severely damage our neighbour's home. We have been considering asking an expert's advice on what we should do and when.
ReplyDeleteIt was good to be able to see the rainbow :)
The rainbow was a really nice touch, if I may put it that way. :) It was a hard decision, though, and it looks strange and bare through the back windows. But I'm also getting used to it already.
DeleteTrees are lovely, but can be a problem too. The previous owners of this house planted a silver birch under the power line to the house!!! So each year I have to chop the top out of it. I don't want to remove it completely as it provides screening from the street. Thankfully my grandson Denver was here recently and he lopped the top off it and a couple of other trees that were getting a bit too tall. So now Iv'e been chopping the prunings, and throwing back on the garden beds as mulch. Just as well I like repetition :) xx
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a lot of chopping, if you're making it mulch-sized!
DeleteIt's large mulch :) And the bigger branches as kindling for the wood heater. xx
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