How Quickly Things Can Change

On Saturday afernoon I was taking pictures of Iris near the white hydrangeas.  It looked like this:

Note:  that's a tree trunk in back of the hydrangeas.

On Sunday morning Ms. Peachy and Luci and I were about fifteen feet away from the tree when it came down - with little warning:  it now looks like this:

 

The hydrangeas in the earlier picture are on the left.  Here it is from he other side:

I feel very very fortunate that we were not closer when it came down.  It was a very noisy event.  There are horses in the pasture across the street and the thud spooked the horses.  I was also spooked.  The poodles were fine. 

The tree service came out this morning and told me that they would remove it by noon - so that I could get out of the driveway.  It was windy yesterday morning.  But unfortunately I believe the tree was diseased - and it does not take wind to bring it down.  We have a couple of other trees that probably need to come down and I would rather have the tree service do it than mother nature.

I am really in no hurry to leave.. I have some very interesting projects that keep me here....I've been doing some drawing - some miniatures in graphite on prepared water color paper. I am working from some photos of ruins I took many years ago...

I wonder how long that tree has been there......

Comments

[Kym]

Oh,my! What a surprise! I'm glad you weren't any nearer the tree when it fell.