Goodbye, Tree

Here's a picture of the VERY large maple tree in our front yard that we have to get taken down. It's ruined the sidewalk and we want to get the sidewalk fixed (before anyone gets hurt), so the tree has to come down. The city controls what must be done with the tree and the sidewalk, but, of course, we have to pay for it all. Not that we have anythting else to spend thousands of dollars on now. Oh, well. Hopefully, this the last home improvement that we'll have to get down before Owen comes. And we'll be planting a tree in the fall to replace the maple (probably a flowering pear tree - not as big as a maple). We can tell Owen that it was planted the same year that he was born.