A fast moving storm on Saturday night, accompanied by some severe bursts of wind knocked down one of our two Autumn Blaze Maples up by the fence on 2nd East. It had a diameter of about 6 or 7” and was 32’ tall. It broke a branch out of one of the old thorny locust trees. There are leaves of all kinds strewn all over the yard. It’s always sad to lose a tree, and this is the second one this year. We lost the little Eastern Redbud in the front yard from a diseased/rotted trunk. Remember the half-a-tree (Ornamental Pear) we lost to a micro-burst at the old house, the day we picked up Marie the exchange student from France at the airport? Dad spent quite a bit of time pruning off the branches, cutting up the trunk and hauling it down the hill.
A fast moving storm on Saturday night, accompanied by some severe bursts of wind knocked down one of our two Autumn Blaze Maples up by the fence on 2nd East. It had a diameter of about 6 or 7” and was 32’ tall. It broke a branch out of one of the old thorny locust trees. There are leaves of all kinds strewn all over the yard. It’s always sad to lose a tree, and this is the second one this year. We lost the little Eastern Redbud in the front yard from a diseased/rotted trunk. Remember the half-a-tree (Ornamental Pear) we lost to a micro-burst at the old house, the day we picked up Marie the exchange student from France at the airport? Dad spent quite a bit of time pruning off the branches, cutting up the trunk and hauling it down the hill.
2 comments:
super sad about your tree, will you plant another one?
seems you've inherited ownership of tree problems from us --our big ones at the Baxters, then the recent arborvitaes... yes, lots of work.
Did you count the rings?
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