Continuation from earlier post today.............

This is my view this morning with all of the trees removed.  My neighbors moved in just a couple months after we moved here in 1972.  We raised all of our children and have adult grandchildren now.  The neighbors are very nature oriented but as we become elderly people, we worry about something on our property harming someone else, and that's why the trees needed to come down.  I still have my 5 redbuds, a maple and a juniper so in the spring it won't look this bare.  We will plant a couple new trees.

While the tree guys were here I asked how much to take down the redbud in front of my house.  It planted itself there about 21 years ago.  I was going to dig it out and next thing I knew it was too big to dig so I left it.  It is right between my water line and gas line leading up to the house so I felt it was a danger to both sets of pipes.

It took them less than 5 minutes to fell it and haul all of it around to the back and to their chipper.