The trees are GONE!

BTW, I never had a chance to write this when I was back east.

Two trees that were at least nine stories tall have been cut down by my aunt who lives across the street from my Mom! During the past decade the twin giants had been slowly dying, towering above both houses and the street that ran between. They were always a marvel to behold, especially when I was a child playing in the yard during the summer or building snow forts in the winter near their feet.

The taller branches had been cut a few years back, but I always assumed the rest of the tree would be there for a very long time. One day last week, as we arrived at my Mom's, suddenly I saw the last vestige of those once behemoths laying on the ground after a saw team took them down with only the stumps remaining. It was kind of like a piece of my childhood had been destroyed!

Where two wide tree trunks and multiple leafy branches rose way into the sky, now only sky remained. It was an incredible sight and kind of sad. I'm sure the stumps will go next. Hopefully she'll plant new trees which in a hundred years will rise to the height of my once childhood companions.