Trees

When I got the removal permit for my ailing catalpa, I had plans.  To do a farewell sketch of it, and then to sketch the workers when they came to take it down.

Instead, I got this:

That's just the main trunk, after PGE chopped up the rest of it so they could get the power lines back up again.

And on the other side of the house, the people who lifted the branches off my garage and Karen's deck deemed that the ice had melted enough that they could bring in the chipper and remove the brush.