Felling the Trees

As druids, we are not going to like taking down trees, but for the last few days, four hard-working tree surgeons in lumberjack shirts (of course) have been working on our land. They were here to carry out the agreement we had to fell some trees and some heavy branches on other trees that had become a danger to traffic and to the windows of our house.

Watching the trees go was amazing though. The lads clambered high into the branches, right up above the eaves of the house, and took them down safely with ropes and the howl of their saws.

It is quite upsetting to see their scarred remains now at the edge on one small part of the garden, but there are some great positives. Firstly, light and sun are now able to come into the garden, something the land and plants have been longing for. Secondly, we still have almost fifty trees surrounding our land. Thirdly, we won't be liable if a limb comes down in the road after a gale. Fourthly, they won't be coming through our new extension windows, either! Fifthly (nearly finished) we have the most gigantic pile of logs, neatly sawed and under a tarp, waiting to be used in our lovely new wood burning stove. By the time we get it, they will have weathered nicely. And finally we have now got an interrupted view of the landscape. For a while, we sat in the late evening sun watching half a dozen red kites wheel in the sky, crying in their spine-chilling high-pitched wail.

Magic.