In case you haven’t seen it already, we hung lights on the big oak tree outside of Zingerman’s Roadhouse. The lighting was the closing part of a lecture we put on discussing the history, care and future of this tree.

When you get a chance, drive by at night and check it out. Let us know what you think.

All jokes aside, today was a sad day for one of our clients down in Manchester. As you can tell from this picture, her tree had a significant amount of decay in the trunk so we had to recommend removal. The tree was living, but with only 12% sound wood throughout the trunk, the risk of failure was high…especially due to nearby targets. The homeowner believed that the tree was planted around 1900 and we believe that her guess is pretty accurate. It was sad to see something that has been growing for a hundred years reduced to a stump in a matter of hours, but a failure at the wrong time would have been catastrophic.