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  1. Eric VW

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    Today, next to our house.
    Tree companies working for power company, arborists they are not….

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    Looks like crap, not good for the tree. Almost might have taken the poor thing down!
     
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    This is the norm around here for power line trees!
     
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    They do that here too.
     
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    Typical roadside tree butchery.....
    We lived on a dead end road with only 4 houses and no overhead lines, yet the morons from the county road department came through with one of those excavator mounted mutilators and totally shredded everything for about 50 feet off the pavement, they went up into the trees 30 feet and ripped them to bits as well, it took one lazy turd about an hour to make a hideous mess that would take 20 years to recover.....
    I'm not a "tree hugger" but that kind of pointless destruction really grinds my gears!
     
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    Of course, they do it darn near everywhere.

    This particular carve up displaced easily 30+ hummingbirds that frequent this prior beauty of a mimosa. The canopy would seem alive as the nectar seeking wonders would hover from flower to flower.
    Many will have to look elsewhere now.
     
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    Plant more!
    And keep them fed. They'll find new homes, but they'll remember your feeders/flowers.
     
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    West Texas storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime, fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun.

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    Great pic is an understatement.. wow
     
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    I'm guessing it wasn't taken with a phone camera.
     
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    Also looks like a filter or two was applied.
     
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    I thought the same thing...likely looked very different in person...still cool a cool pic though
     
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    And...........in focus! The wonders of modern technology never cease to amaze me! :rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:
     
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    That’s actually what you meant, right?
    :D
     
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    That is more accurate......:doh:
     
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    This sounds like the last place I worked at before retiring

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