Today is Earth Day. The irony is not lost--yesterday we had an old palo verde tree cut down in our back yard in Tucson. She was a large tree, and had been home to many birds over the years, and gave nice shade to the house. It was her time to go. We discovered a colony of ants living in the deadwood of the tree when she was cut down. Her limbs were chipped and will go back to the earth. Today, we saw a pair of doves in the early morning, and they seemed to be looking for the tree. At various times throughout the day other birds--finches, mostly--hopped up on the fence, and then down into the back yard. Were they looking for the tree? No way to know. It took the crew just 3 1/2 hours to completely cut the tree down to the ground, chip it up, sweep, and be gone. I tried to count the tree rings, and estimate the tree was between 25 and 40 years old. It cleaned a lot of air in its life. The back yard looks quite bare, and I feel sadness.
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