Been seeing a bunch of these around lately.
Yesterday, during some road construction, a truck ran into the large tree in front of my apartment. I have been mourning it like a friend. It gave us shade, filtered the Fell St. smog and felt like a silent protector of our small house. My neighbor took a short video and sent it to me while I was at work feeling helpless and sad.
There I was sitting in my office chair watching the tiny screen of my cell phone as the tree was taken apart limb by limb to be hauled away, somewhere. The damage to the tree wasn't that bad but a limb threatened a cable line so Comcast has now reduced it to a stump in the sidewalk.
A previous tenant had hung a piece of art near the highest limb, which could only be viewed from the upstairs. It had a jet flying over some innocent looking folks who were raising their arms to the sky. And now, I don't know where that is either.
It will be weird turning the corner for a few weeks. But I assume like most things/people I've lost, I will eventually forget how it looked, or the shape of the leaves. Or, how it provided for me and the space it has left there is due to be filled sooner or later.
There I was sitting in my office chair watching the tiny screen of my cell phone as the tree was taken apart limb by limb to be hauled away, somewhere. The damage to the tree wasn't that bad but a limb threatened a cable line so Comcast has now reduced it to a stump in the sidewalk.
A previous tenant had hung a piece of art near the highest limb, which could only be viewed from the upstairs. It had a jet flying over some innocent looking folks who were raising their arms to the sky. And now, I don't know where that is either.
It will be weird turning the corner for a few weeks. But I assume like most things/people I've lost, I will eventually forget how it looked, or the shape of the leaves. Or, how it provided for me and the space it has left there is due to be filled sooner or later.
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