Farewell

The neighborhood is losing a sentinel. This tall old tree that's been on the corner forever will be gone by tomorrow night. The crew worked all day, limbing and chipping, and left this skeleton when the shift was over. It was a grand thick thing, but had a nasty habit of dropping its branches onto the power lines during big storms, leaving the neighborhood in darkness, sometimes for days. The tree was also home to various families of crows that were overly fond of divebombing passers-by and pecking their heads. But I will miss its towering presence when I look out the back window every morning.