Red Sky at Night Means Pizza ... Right ?
That headline is not exactly what sailors say but the sky WAS tinted red the night of our recent
Snow Storm.
Reddish at 2:00 in the morning.
Actually I was just getting home after an evening of live music at the Pour House and had my new
"low-light" camera with me.
My neighbor's yard across the street caught my eye and the camera caught the image nicely.
Unfortunately, the line of palm trees in my front yard were droopy.
Snow is quite heavy and we had a really wet snow fall.
The real surprise that evening, er, I mean, that morning was in my back yard.
The 40-foot cedar had boughs hanging low and several oaks came close to challenging power lines. These trees were scheduled for a severe trim later that morning.
I thought the tree service people would wait until the snow melted. I was right.
They came at noon instead of 9am.
(For some amazing nighttime details, click on the photos. My Canon S90 did good.)
Labels: 40-foot cedar tree, Charleston Snow, ice sculptures, pizza pie, red sky, snowy boughs, stately oaks
Woodman...Spare That Tree. Well, OK, trim it.
20 years ago Hurricane Hugo clipped the top of this cedar.
It grew
out instead of
up and pointy.
It grew more on the side close to the house and this is not a good thing.
Mother Nature really needed a trim.
A small army of guys showed up to tend to the cedar tree as well as my two oaks with thick limbs that were not being good neighbors.
Oh, and they brought along a huge "chipper" that chomps branches and limbs up to 10" thick.
Among the branches, several birds had taken refuge from the previous night's surprise snowfall.
The sound of many chain saws starting up signaled it was a good time to find another resting spot.
At one point there were "cutters" wearing safety harness in each tree with chain saws buzzing and sawdust flying.
Men on the ground under each tree handled ropes that gently lowered large cut limbs to the ground where they were dragged to the maw of the giant chipper.
Ever see the movie
FARGO?
The stately oaks were cut back so they did not hang down in yards next door.
Or brush against my house or scrape shingles on the roof.
Everywhere you looked, there was activity.
Limbs being cut, branches being trimmed.
A man with a big leaf blower appeared to clean up loose debris.
It was all over in one hour.
(If you click on the photos, you'll see more detail. Thank you.)
Labels: cedar tree, chain saws, Chipper, Fargo, maw, safety harness, sawdust, stately oaks, the movie, tree-trimmers
That headline is not exactly what sailors say but the sky WAS tinted red the night of our recent Snow Storm. 
