Yesterday at 9 o'clock big trucks began to park along my little block on Fleming Street, and lots of men with ladders, ropes and chain saws arrived at the house across the street.Immediately, the neighbors (including me) began to come outside with their coffee cups. Story is, new man in brick house doesn't like walnuts falling on his truck so he asks man in white house to cut tree down.
Man in white house declines and man in brick house offers to have cut all the limbs that are over his yard. So the cutting began....
BUT, late in the afternoon, I realized that things must have changed, they were still cutting this big old walnut tree that has been there forever. About this time, I was beginning to feel betrayed.
I watched off and on all day. The loss of an old tree is sad to me. This one had seen so much in its time on Fleming Street, it could write a best seller. I especially remember the little handicapped girl who lived there and sat in its shade and sang so sweetly, and it has stood witness to my life since 1974, so I'm going to miss it.Sorry to be long today. Hope your Friday and weekend are good and you don't lose any trees.
8 comments:
It is sad to see that tree come down. I know walnuts can be messy. Maybe they got a good price for the wood. That is the biggest walnut tree I've ever seen. We had a small one at one time but it kept getting infested with some kind of bug ??? and finally it was diseased so we had to cut it down. I'd had visions of lots of walnuts to come. Here I am sitting at the camper surrounded by trees and not a one of them walnuts. But they are huge old trees and I love them. Hope your Friday is a fantastic one!
Peggy - I totally understand what you are saying! Would it be so hard to sweep up the darn walnuts? Things look so bare and cold without trees. Whenever I see an archaic tree chopped down it both saddens and angers me. In our church yard the grounds people managed to kill 50 yr old peonies, a cottonwood tree at least 70 yrs old, an ancient apple tree and lilac bush. All because they were too "messy" and hard to cut around. It looks like a golf course now. I hope you have a peaceful weekend ~*~Lisa
Now watch the guy in the brick house move.
It is sad to think the tree has to go because of an inanimate object.
Shame the old tree had to go. We used to live in a place where there were 2 large walnut trees. We parked cars and trucks under one of them all the time. Never noticed any places the walnuts made.
I feel the same as you do when it comes to removing old trees. Have a great weekend.
It makes me sad to see it go..never seen one that big...I think if I were the owner I would have cut the limbs that were on his property. The house across the highway from our house had pecan trees that were well over 50 years old cut down...I just stood at the window and watched in disbelief. Our pecan trees are older than his and we have 3 that are under power lines and those have to be cut..but it still saddens me.We have 9 pecan trees total and they are not going anywhere as long as we live here. My husband sells the pecans in the fall..there's usually over 500 lbs every year
Hope you have a nice weekend.
Smiles and huggs
Maxie
It is sad when an old tree gets cut down, especially one in good health. That walnut tree looked healthy. People don't realize how old that tree was, or how many lives it had touched over the years.
Myra
Nooo!
There were Walnut and Filbert trees lining my driveway growing up. They gave way to development when the owners of the land passed away and their children sold the pricey land. We used to collect the Walnuts and filberts and always had a nice bowl of them to crack and eat.
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