The lovely maple tree that protected the corner of our property from errant automobiles taking the Y-corner to quickly, is gone. Remember the big storm we had a few weeks ago, with high winds and slashing rain? Well, according to the young arborists who came out today to do the surgery, the tree has been growing with ‘occluded bark’ – it means there were really two trunks crunched together with bark in between, although it looked like one sturdy trunk. Gradually, as the tree matured and the leaf canopy got thicker and heavier, the weight began to pull the twin trunks asunder, so that a deepening crack appeared.   We called in the Town – luckily for our pocketbook, the tree is on their…

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