The Towering Silver Maple: Now You See it, Now You Don't

 

We lost the tree 2 summers ago.  The other one (to the right) remains, though it was trimmed considerably.

The bad news:  the clean-up and cost.

The good news:

• A revitalized, more colorful garden on the south side of the house (which required a lot of work but was ultimately very rewarding)
• Enough sun for a very productive vegetable garden (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, onions, zucchini, various herbs)
• Grass grows incredibly thick where we endlessly seeded. 
• A new shed
• Fewer fallen twigs, seeds, and leaves!  (Silver maples are very messy trees.)

But as you can clearly see, the change took some gettin' used to.