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As a tree lover I share your pain. You have shared pictures of this beautiful tree in your posts several times but it's time to say goodbye now....
posted by
shamasehar
on September 10, 2018 at 4:46 AM
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I'd never heard of a microburst. It's always difficult when our favorite trees are removed.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on September 9, 2018 at 4:39 PM
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Re: CCT
Also, I am thankful that I will have a good view of other trees when this one is gone, only a little farther away. The nearest will be a redbud tree that the view of has been blocked by this bigger tree. Redbuds are so beautiful in the spring.
posted by
TAPS.
on September 9, 2018 at 11:10 AM
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At least Taps it was a natural disaster. How far worse if it had been taken slowly by some contagious disease. Or left standing as some are stark against the background of memory.
posted by
C_C_T
on September 9, 2018 at 10:24 AM
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That's just how I felt a year or so ago when they took down what appeared to be a healthy old Chinese Elm in the yard behind this place. I had watched it for the several years I've lived here, a racecourse of squirrels, a perch for the crows and doves, and a couple of years back, for a flock of robins for a couple of days. It was part of the summer's green shade over my south-east-facing windows in the morning, and caught sunset light in the evening. It cradled the rising moon and sun.
The owner said it was diseased, and has planted a young maple in its place. It will be many years and I will be long gone before it shades my kitchen windows again.
posted by
Ciel
on September 9, 2018 at 5:59 AM
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Just like all of us....the trees get old too......and they don't really have an active support group for them.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on September 9, 2018 at 5:46 AM
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One tree hugger to another, I'm sorry that one has to go.
posted by
Pat_B
on September 9, 2018 at 4:34 AM
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TAPS
It's a beautiful tree and the beautiful memories will stay in your mind, not to mention the beautiful photos. It's just not safe anymore. We get microbursts here. And due to our harsh very wet winters and overly dry, hot summers lately, so very many trees in the area are diseased and/or dead. It seems like half of them in the entire city! They are tilted, broken and unsafe. I'm sorry your tree is going away, but perhaps, just perhaps, you can ask if they'll plant another maple tree in its place. I hope they do that.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on September 8, 2018 at 11:36 PM
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