The arborists were here!

We booked them a couple of weeks ago. Manager Jamie came by, a gracious, personable young man and I led him around the garden path 😁 to show him what I wanted taken down and cut up. The quote was very specific and well done.

BEFORE: This is the view out the bathroom window. The maple is getting taller, which is fine, but it's going to rub up against the roof soon. We had to have a tree removed that was broken and leaning on the roof a couple of years ago. This is a prudent, proactive decision. 

This is the view out the bathroom window. The trees are slowly growing towards the house. With the storms we've had, it was worrisome. This will give the sumac more sunshine, too! They are a lovely spot of colour.

Before and after! 

It was a beautiful morning, the sunrise was lovely! 

BEFORE

during...

AFTER - from the opposite direction!

I've clean up on aisle 2 to do! The branches will be left for critter shelter. 

 

Some of the logs are too big for me to carry. I moved three lots of wood. I'll whittle away at it over the week. 😉

I managed a couple loads the first afternoon. Tuesday, 3 more loads. I'm going to hire someone to help split the stuff I cannot lift. 

Their first area was to remove the dead sumac tree trunks and lay them flat. You can see the snow on them before they arrived. 

The snow melted, and the sumacs laid flat. The previous owners used to cut all these down. This was an area with a lovely forest of sumacs. When that happened, there wasn't enough moisture and they lost the integrity of the forest. Now it is full of milkweed. We don't need an English-style lawn here!

It looks much tidier without all those dead elms. I haven't been able to cut the weeds and wildflowers for Joe's walking path. Where we walk, I keep down the grasses, since the ticks like that habitat. I literally ran into a dead tree trunk and had to back up. That problem is solved!