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tree pics

Thursday 22 October 1998

Today was a beautiful day and I got into a picture taking, picture scanning mood. I walked barefoot from my house to Walgreen's and bought a little disposable camera, then back past my house and took pictures where Montrose crosses Allen Parkway. I haven't finished the roll yet, but soon, oh so soon, I shall scan those pics and give you a before/after (wet/dry) comparison from the day it flooded.

However, I did scan some other pictures! From when the tree fell in my parking lot. I had accidentally scanned some thumbnails and now I shall use those in this journal entry to reference the big pics I scanned today.

(I didn't make sure I scanned the exact same photos, but I think I pretty much did that anyway. Let's see how it goes. Click on the images to get the big version)

Okay, when I arrived, this is pretty much what I saw, except I arrived at 11pm, and after calling my landlord and him calling the light company, and them calling the tree crew, these guys showed up at 5am.

From the top of the stairs, this is a view of my room window. I didn't think to take a pic from inside that window...

This view is looking down the stairs. I made rainforest howling monkey noises as I climbed up them when I first got home.

After some initial trimming with the long pole things, this guy got up in the tree with a chainsaw. Not too long after he started some of the neighbors asked incredulously if the work has to be done "now???"

As the branch pieces fell, some hit the phone wires below them; my phone was out of service for about 36 hours after the entertainment

The smaller portion of the trunk was leaning against the telephone wires, which I believe is what kept it from falling all the way over. However, the tree was improperly trimmed because of those same wires; so they kinda helped it fall in the first place.

Here's the guy gently clipping small branches out of the wires before cutting the larger branch at its base.

I didn't scan a thumnail of this one. I was nervous when he lashed himself to the phone wire to get a better reach way up into the branches.

These next two shots are different from the larger images, but show the same idea. The thumbnails are the top portion of the branch, and the bigger images are the bigger lower portion of the same branch.

Once it was trimmed, the branch was similarly lashed to the telephone wire.

The carefully placed knots worked perfectly to lower the branch to the ground. I was impressed.

From the top of the stairs, I could barely see the parking lot. When the guys left, they left all the branches and the trunk and everything except their stuff.

At this moment I really began to recognize how different the landscaping would be.

The trunk was about 2 feet tall.

The big pic is after these limbs were cleaned up. It was well into the afternoon, so the lighting is quite different.

This is my car, Scott, taken from the top of the stairs.

Just as I was finishing this entry, my cat Spot hopped up onto my computer desk and I snapped a few pics of him in the same roll as the previously mentioned photos of Montrose and Allen Parkway.

I'll be sure to scan a pic of Spot when these come back.