Flying Trees and a Mountain of Mulch

We had to remove a beautiful old silver maple from our property. It was rotting from the inside out due to long term suffocation from ivy and was just too large and ominous for our property. It was an amazing tree and I miss its presence – as does eaw. We are planning to plant something new in the spring to honor the tree. It was quite a process to take it down, limb by limb, with a crane. Then, the grinding of the stump left a labyrinth of fresh fantastic mulch. It’s amazing how different our house looks without the tree, and it’s still disorienting to enter the backyard and see it gone. I fear several birds have been permanently displaced.