Gone With the Wind

One of the main things I remember about Katrina, the actual storm as opposed to the aftermath, is standing at my back door looking at the trees in the back yard and praying for them not to come down on the house. We have 3 trees that are either dead or on the way to dead, two of which could easily have fallen on the house. They didn't, thank goodness. Crazy as this sounds, a few weeks ago, during a storm while Greg was out of town, I had suddenly had this bizarre fear that I would come home and find one of those trees down on the house. There was no real reason for me to think that, it was out of the blue. That same tree I was worried about then happens to be the one that took a dive during today's strong winds. Lucky for us, it chose to fall backwards instead of toward the house.

You can kind of see a where the upper branches start if you notice the "V" shaped limbs at the top of the picture. That's the part that would have been on the house if it had fallen forward, instead of falling on the supposed site of the new library.

I had Greg take this one with me in it to get an idea of how big this stupid tree was.

Now we just have to figure out what to do with it. And contemplate getting the other two dead trees taken down. But that will probably have to wait a few months, unless somebody is willing to do it for free firewood!