Open Sky and Open Space

It is amazing what a difference one large tree removal can make in a landscape. For the past two weeks, I would look out of my guest bedroom window at the large silver maple that stood before my eyes. There I tried to imagine what that space would look like without that tree. I knew that it would look bare but you never really know until it is actually gone.

Opening up that space was like turning on a light bulb. The property beside me and behind me suddenly opened up. My husband said that our property suddenly looked much larger, and he was correct. Not only did the ground surface seem larger, but the air space was wide open. A smaller sugar maple that had been situated nearby suddenly looked deformed. For years the silver maple had grown toward the sun light and directly into this little guy, and because of that, the tree appears to be cut in half. My only hope is, that with the new space, its limbs will grow out into the space that originally should have been his.