mother nature laid the smack down...

within 15 minutes (5:45-6pm) the skies darkened, the wind picked up, thunder & lightening struck, buckets of rain poured and there was a threat of a tornado...and no, we don't live in kansas, we live 6 miles north of boston...and then it was all over. only to find this had happened in that short amount of time...

my lumberjack cut a few of the branches that were putting a lot of pressure on the garage off last night, but then the tree started cracking more so we let it be...

the whole thing needs to come down, the trunk was split right down the middle. i never thought i'd be so sad to lose a tree. it provided the relief of shade and hours of squirrel hunting for our dogs. but i'm grateful that nothing more was damaged and that no one was hurt.

goodbye big ole' tree.