Higher Up The Tree

Over the weekend the guys across the street hired tree trimmers to cut down a huge pecan tree in their side yard.

Sad news for me.

Our house faces west and this pecan tree shaded our living room window from the glare of the setting sun. My computer desk sits facing that window and now I’ll have to avoid the computer in late afternoons because even with the blinds down, it’s just too bright for me to see the computer screen.

Everyone in our neighborhood gathered to watch the spectacle of the tree coming down.

The workmen began taking off the lower limbs and working their way up the main trunk. They would rope each heavy limb to some higher branch, then as it was detached, they’d ease it to the ground via a pulley system to avoid dropping it on the rooftop.

All this activity and the noise of the chainsaws panicked the squirrels who inhabit the pecan tree. They tried to escape by rushing higher and higher up the trunk.

There’s a limit to how much you can escape by climbing higher.