Pictures of the mess

Here it is. Wonderful, hm? The rest of the tree obviously needs to come down, but I don't know how I'm going to pay for it.

I don't know if you remember other pictures of the yard to realize just how much ground this covers! At least half the yard.


From "inside." You can just see my swing to the right of the little white table. Both miraculously survived, although the canopy on the swing is a bit bent.


Poor redbud--the impact just popped it right out of the ground.


Another angle.


Taenzer, consenting to add perspective to the mass of greenery. She's been thrilled with her new playground. Although it definitely cuts down on her running room, it gives her lots of great new challenges with her ball.

Timber, just being his cute self.


I have another picture to add later. The guy who agreed to clean it up brought his wife and daughter out last night and darn if they don't have almost all of it cut and stacked, ready to be hauled away. It looks really empty out there now. He's still trying to figure out how to get the big branch cut free of the tree without killing himself, but they did a huge amount of work in about 3 hours. I'll have to try to keep Taenzer from dragging branches all over the place.