The Big Tree Outside · · PAGE 7.
July 11, 2014: The large tree that is rooted
outside the master bedroom window was trimmed of a number of limbs that grew over the top
of this house when the new owners purchased the property. There are still a few
limbs that grow westward over the house next door. The one I have pointed out in the
photo is very low over their roof. I took this photo standing on the sidewalk in
front of the house next door.
Here is another view of the low-hanging limb as seen from outside my Florida
Room. Most of that limb is dead.
July 29, 2014: One contractor came by and cut that
tree limb and put the remains on the street. You can see this was a Tuesday, garbage
day and the tree was removed as yard waste by the end of the day.
Here is how the tree looked that day after the limb was removed. All that
needed to be removed had not been completed.
July 31, 2014: A second tree crew came to finish
up the work on our tree over there, and working for the owner of that property, they
removed limbs from their trees also. Two men are on the roof and one is up in the
tree with a chain saw. The guys on the roof are lowering the cut limbs with ropes.
They came with a bigger truck and an open top trailer to carry away the limbs cut
today rather than leave them on the side of the street. The RED markings were added
to the photo on August 16, 2014 after the meeting and
conference call. These are the two BIG limbs that are over the top of the house next
door.
August 5, 2014: I went next door to get some
better photos showing how "our tree" had been trimmed by the crew seen in the
photo above. The RED markings were added to the photo on August
16, 2014 after the meeting and conference call. These are the two BIG limbs
that are over the top of the house next door.
Here is a photo taken further back from the neighbor's drive way showing more
of the work area.
Here is another drive way photo showing the changes to their trees. There
are no more low-hanging limbs from any trees over their house.
The view of the tree from our side shows where the limbs have been removed just
above where the yellow line ends. That part of the trunk continues toward the street
and upward over the front yard next door.
Here is another view of the tree taken from just outside at the west side of
the Florida Room. The limb that heads toward the street is clearly visible at the
top center of this photo, . The large cut on the left closer to the ground is the
portion of the tree removed when the house was bought by the present owners to protect it
from storms and hurricanes. This was one part of the tree that was directly over our
house.
I went up on the abandoned putting green behind my house to get this photo
showing the "big picture" looking toward the street. The house next door
is almost completely obscured by the plants in the bottom right corner of the photo.
The top of their roof is visible between their tree trunks that grow from their
back yard.
The photo below is a closer view of the plants seen at the bottom right corner
in the photo above. I have trimmed the low-hanging fronds on the left while the
normal pattern is for these to grow outward and lay on the ground. It makes a good
hiding place for small animals including the two raccoons we have seen that were eating
out of garbage cans, including ours. We trapped one smaller raccoon and relocated it
to the next county to the west across the Saint Johns River.
August 18, 2014: I have been looking back at
Google Earth photos of the house when they drove down our street in June 2011. The
following photos show the BIG TREE before any work was done. I centered the view of
the tree on this photo before I captured it. The gray "BAR" at the bottom
center of the photo is the 30 MPH street sign seen "edge on" from the Google car
driving by taking these photos.
Here is a photo showing the center of the house from the street. Take
note of the amount of shadow on the roof from the trees. The shrubs show how much
they were maintained in 2011 compared to the size seen in my photos on page 1 of this
series of web pages.
This view from the southeast corner of the lot gives some detail of the east
side of the house.
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