Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Nichols offered: Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tree Details >>Several viewers commented on the "nice" tree that I recently removed from my backyard. While I don't usually want to burden the lists with details, I don't want people to think I remove trees without good cause. The three images below show the problems that caught me by surprise, and led to the decision to remove the tree.<<<<<< Hi Jim, Well the whiners and bitchers have never had a limb from a 100 year old Oak as big as anyone has ever seen break off in a wind storm and crash through a neighbors' house! That's all it took to cut the rest of it down before the next storm dropped the remaining part, still huge, on our place. When the arborist came to check it out to see if we could save it by removing some of the upper branches we were told it should come down as soon as possible due to discovered rot throughout much of the main limbs. Did we feel bad about it coming down, sure! Heck we'd lived 25 years of it's 100 years, loved the shade in the summer, hated raking the leaves in the fall. But you know what? Now it's gone there's a big hole in the sky where it's beautiful leafy branches spread out. Today we feel a kind of loss of a friend when we look up and it's not there. Yea I know that'll sound stupid to some. But do you know what? I don't give a flying hoop in hell how they feel! Oh and in case some dim-light says anything about cutting down trees? How many do this? We moved in here June 1981 and we've bought a live Christmas tree about eight feet tall each year since. Bring it in the house, decorate it and keep the huge root ball damp while it sits in a 16X20 photo tray full of water. Good secondary use for the tray. :-) Then the boys give me a hand on New Years Day morning and we plant it somewhere around the house as a remembrance of what a wonderful Christmas we enjoyed. Yep today we've got lots of really big Christmas trees including the first as a towering tree higher than the roof of the house each decorated with wonderful memories! :-) Ted