Longtime readers will recall my yearly habit of snapping a photo of Olivia walking up Prince Street on the first and last days of school.
Here’s the first day of grade one:
And here’s the last day of grade six:
In every one of those photos, just off to the left you can see the weeping birch tree in front of our neighbours’ house, tree number 482 in the city’s tree inventory.
That tree came down today, along with three of its mates up Prince Street toward Grafton, a deliberate cutting due disease.
Here’s this morning just after 8:30 a.m. from our front vestibule:
And here’s the same view an hour later:
It was a beautiful tree we lost today, a part of our neighbourhood for as long as we’ve lived here and many years before. Here are a few photos I took earlier this fall when the announcement came that the end was near:
