This Norway maple sits in the front of a neighborhood house where I live in upstate New York, in the United States.
It has a nice, full canopy of leaves. Too many leaves, perhaps, because an electric line runs through the tree. And leaves, in high wind, do not mix with electric lines.
Tuesday, a windstorm blew up as a cold front passed through our area and a transformer at the end of our block blew. Two electric company trucks came to fix it. One parked under that tree. You can barely see one of the trucks in the bottom of the photo.
A man with a long electric saw on a pole came not long after, and started to trim several trees on our street. This was one of the trees right before the trimming.. It still looks pretty majestic, though, even after its "haircut" - even though the tree must have helped cause a power failure, I still appreciate it. All of us do mischief now and then.
We are expecting more bad weather tomorrow and I hope the haircut was enough. The main culprit may well have been the catalpa tree I blogged about several Tree Loves ago - it got a more extensive trimming.
I don't know if this maple tree was the culprit - but it may well have participated in a group tree effort.
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It’s still a beautiful tree
ReplyDeleteI love trees!
ReplyDeleteA group tree effort. . . LOL
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tree!
ReplyDeleteLove your take on the happenings, Alana. Mischievious trees getting haircuts :)
Cheers,
- Priya (https://softypinkngloriousred.wordpress.com)
Wow! Yes, trees can cause' trouble' in such manner when growing in a urban area.. I love the way you have stood up for the trees! :-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck getting through the weather. I love majestic trees. They give off a special kind of energy.
ReplyDeleteGreat shade.
ReplyDeleteIn India, we see tons of these things. The branches would fall on lines or a tree would sway with storm and what not. It's fun and like you said, we are all allowed some mischief on and off :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining, Alana! See you on the 10th!
Oh yes thats happens a lot here in India too that high winds mix up the electric cables and the tree branches resulting in a bang. I have grown up in an area where this was routine and every storm meant a huge power cut :-)
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