She was a scuffy survivor on this once leafy block... having survived the loss of a major limb in a thunderstorm a few years back...
Along with the unkempts hedges she gave our home a shady intimacy... who cares that it caught all the litter blown down from the business district up the block?
Aside from the tree next to the bank across the street she was the last...
Then last week as I was coming home the store I notice a work crew had gathered around the bank's tree so I went to get the camera... coming back I found that this...
This fabulous beast was parked outside the building site on the corner of 34th ave and Steinway. Under the extremely watchful gaze of the driver, I took some pictures.
Mad dogs and English women...
(yeah, that's me in the wing mirror. Not...