Yesterday, the tree butchers came. I refuse to dignify these guys with the name tree surgeons! What they did to the trees on the roof garden is appalling!!
There are 3 trees in front of windows at our end of the roof garden — lovely, mature trees with tons of foliage. Oops — make that they had lots of foliage, as you can see by this shot of Lester in the window. We won’t get any shots like this again!
As a result of the shade from those trees, the grass below the trees hasn’t been growing well. This is not a big deal to most of us because it has seemingly stopped the nosy ones from getting too close to the building and trying to peer in windows. However, management apparently decided they want luxurious grass. Grass instead of leaves on trees, which help the environment so much more than grass. Grass that will get wrecked by the window washers anyway when they pour their window washing pails out on the ground, rather than in the drain that’s there.
Back to the tree butchers. They cut off huge limbs as well as many, many branches. The difference it is going to make to us is enormous. In the past, during hot days when it hit 105 and was humid as can be we haven’t needed to put on the air conditioning because we had so much shade from the leaves on the trees. This year?? This year I bet we have to put the air conditioning on a lot.
Trees are so environmentally friendly and do so much to help clean the air that I just cannot believe they did this for some silly cosmetic reason like grass. My bet is that grass will look nice till the window washers have arrived (which will be soon) and then it will be horrible once again. And this in a city that has pollution alerts every summer and fall? Makes absolutely no sense to me at all.
I shall be in the management office tomorrow morning to register my displeasure with what happened this weekend. If they dare say anything about doing things for Earth Day on Tuesday, I will remind them what they did against Earth Day! What an absolutely vile example to set!
To keep this somewhat quilt related, last night I finished back-basting the batik ovals. This will be my summer stitching, I think. If I head out to the roof garden, I’ll just grab a few blocks, a pair of thread snips, some thread and needles. If I do that consistently through the summer, I should have all the blocks appliqued fairly quickly.
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This is a travesty! It is completely against everything every self respecting quilter believes in!!!Planet Earth Love, *karendianne.
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you go get them girl,and when you’re there tell them that even people in the Netherlands are mad at them because of what they did to those poor trees…. maybe it will have inpact, who knows?!?!Hugs from the NetherlandsWinda aka dutchquilter
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So sorry about the trees. What are people thinking!!!!? Our townhome gardeners hacked the living daylights out of all of our bushes and trees last year. I got rid of them, but not before the damage was done.
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Just makes you want to stomp your foot and say rude words! Though maybe, just maybe, the trees will respond with gusto and show those hacks what for, by sprouting like there is no tomorrow! Thanks for stopping by my giveaway to say Hi – I have loved meeting new crafty bloggers. I am fascinated by your back basting method (hadn’t heard of it before). Batik looks great!
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I can believe it. Here the council are going to dig up a woodland to put 800 houses on the site. The same day they announced that us households are not doing enough recycling to help the enviroment. I would laugh if I could stop crying. love and hugs xxx
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Why do people always want to cut down trees? When we were selling out last house I was told to cut down the big tree near our deck, I refused as you could feel the temp drop a few degrees once the sun came around and the deck and house was in the shade. I am happy to say the new owners haven’t cut it down either.
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