We hated to do it, but...

We hated to do it, but we took down the huge elm in the back yard. It was handing over the house and most of it was dead and so it was just waiting for a wind storm to take it down onto the house.
You can read Margaret's reflection on the whole thing at http://leaveitlay.blogspot.com/2013/07/ode-to-tree.html but here are a few pictures of the event.