About a week ago my neighbor back to back with me, to the west, told me they were going to have all 7 of the tall walnut trees taken down. Most of our storms come from the west and they were afraid of the trees landing on my house in a storm. I have a ranch style house and the trees were very tall. This is the view from my kitchen window looking to the south, through a redbud tree to 2 of the walnut trees.
This view is straight west showing 4 walnuts and a maple tree.
The tree guys came sometime before I got home from the quilt shop at 1. They had already cut down the maple tree which I thought was on my property. When I investigated though I found that it was right on the lot line.
This is what my back garden looked like most of the afternoon.
Two of the last three trees. They left this part to do last on all three at the end of the day. The sun was shining too bright to take a photo of the naked back yard when they left and I had to leave to visit Dad and didn't get back until dark. I'll take a photo this morning and post it later. My neighbor told me there is a big hole in my garden where one or more of the heavy sections dropped down. I can empty all of my porch pots into the hole since I was getting ready to dump the dirt anyway. I was thinking about making curtains for my large window in the kitchen and now I know I will have to do it. I have had shade on the west for a lot of years and hadn't put up curtains the past 15 years. My peonies might have more blooms now because they will have full sun for the first time in years.
I sewed the last five 16 patches last night but haven't put them up on the wall yet. I have 2 of the oldest of Kaffe's fabrics in the top 2 blocks and one of his newest in the bottom left block.
This view is straight west showing 4 walnuts and a maple tree.
The tree guys came sometime before I got home from the quilt shop at 1. They had already cut down the maple tree which I thought was on my property. When I investigated though I found that it was right on the lot line.
This is what my back garden looked like most of the afternoon.
Two of the last three trees. They left this part to do last on all three at the end of the day. The sun was shining too bright to take a photo of the naked back yard when they left and I had to leave to visit Dad and didn't get back until dark. I'll take a photo this morning and post it later. My neighbor told me there is a big hole in my garden where one or more of the heavy sections dropped down. I can empty all of my porch pots into the hole since I was getting ready to dump the dirt anyway. I was thinking about making curtains for my large window in the kitchen and now I know I will have to do it. I have had shade on the west for a lot of years and hadn't put up curtains the past 15 years. My peonies might have more blooms now because they will have full sun for the first time in years.
I sewed the last five 16 patches last night but haven't put them up on the wall yet. I have 2 of the oldest of Kaffe's fabrics in the top 2 blocks and one of his newest in the bottom left block.