Tree Patrol Update
After observing a day of rest, the chainsaw started up again early this morning at the Galloway manse on the 300 block of Allen Street. The fear was that they'd come back to finish the job they'd started on Saturday. It seems they did, but the job was not to cut down one tree but to prune, in the same extreme manner, other trees along the eastern edge of the property.
As near as could be determined without trespassing, the trees being pruned are not on Galloway's property but on the adjacent property to the east. What appears to be happening is that branches from those trees extending over the property line are being lopped off.
Correct, the trees all belong to Galloway's neighbor to the east.
ReplyDeleteNo mere "pruning" job, note the size of the limbs being removed from the mature oak in the close-up of the bucket.
By the end of the day the crew had removed everything green that previously hung over Galloway's driveway. It's like a sky box cut out of the foliage and projecting straight up from the shared property line.
It's one thing to say that someone can do whatever they want with their yards, but this guy has so many of Hudson's yards!
There's something almost pathological and weirdly disproportionate about all of this: the multiple properties, the dubious civic "offers," the tree carnage, the dwarf ornamental re-plantings, the symbolic columns ...
I wonder how long that maple will last that's just right of center in the last photo? Anyone care to place a gentleman's bet?
Come winter the extreme amputations of the trees should bring continued joy to all those who view their silhouettes.
ReplyDeletethank you - such sweet envisioning