We've lived in our house for 10 years. The first fall that after our house was built, we planted three threes in our yard. I lived in a neighborhood filled with mature trees going up, so naturally I wanted our own trees once we owned a house. Since our neighborhood is newer, about 15 years old, there are no mature trees. I took pride in the three trees we planted and loved that the two silver maples in the backyard grew quickly.
Unfortunately a couple summers ago, one of our silver maples was damaged in a storm and a large section of it broke and needed to be removed. We tried letting it recover last summer, but as it filled with leaves the two main branches grew heavier and heavier and further and further apart. We knew that we couldn't keep the tree without eventually losing more branches in future storms. This week we said good bye to our tree:( There are some positives to having it removed, but it still makes me sad to see it go.
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| Luke and a full view of the tree (Notice how it's sort of a Y-shape, it used to be fuller in the center) |
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| Nora loves her bike helmet, can you tell?;) (The ribbons on the tree were at the request of the tree removal company. They wanted the tree labeled so they removed the correct tree.) |
I remember so well when I heard about that tree losing a limb. We had just been talking about how beautiful that tree was just a few days earlier.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad to see it go, but I'm also enjoying the clear view of the pond again:)
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