winter prune
looks awkward yet safe
care taken
This is my contribution to the one a week week Photo Challenge my second one for 2017 and the challenge is is Awkward . For this years challenge planned by Cathy and Sandra visit Cathy’s blog at https://nanacathydotcom.wordpress.com/one-a-week-photo-challenge-2017/
These arborists were carefully doctoring our 90 year old North American Liquid Amber. This tree was planted when the house was built. A common practice in our immediate suburbs with Californian Bungalow houses, many of which remain, and also usually so do the trees. Sadly however there is a gradual replacement over time as developers or the nouveau rich ( the only difference being whose money!) buy a bungalow outbidding genuine house savers and then demolish the house and garden and replace them with fence to fence Mc Mansions and hard surfaces. Occasionally they grab two together and put a tennis court on the other block. Artificial environments for artificial people?
Haiku hound 
Great entry for our One-a-Week Photo Challenge Denis – it does always look SO awkward up in those branches with chainsaws.
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Thanks Sandra, they were pretty secure with all the safety gear.
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These men make the pruning look so easy! It is such a shame when local people get out-bid and developers move in. We saw a lot of that when we lived south of the border. In some parts they introduced ‘local-occupancy’ clauses to stem the tide.
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Sounds like England has more safeguards in this sphere than we do here, a local occupancy clause sounds right. Often the developers are not even Australian citizens.
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It was a clause voluntarily added by vendors in Lake District communities where buyers from outside the area had been pushing up the house prices.
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Thanks for the explanation, for a moment I thought local government had found an answer to speculative house buying.
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Haha 😅😅😅 Oh, if only! ☺
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That is not a job for the faint hearted! I remember watching some guys trim a huge gum tree close to our house, I was so nervous watching them, but they obviously have the skill and experience to do that kind of work. I reckon they earn every penny!
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We certainly paid a lot of dollars Sue, but we are not allowed to do it ourselves.
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Great haiku and shots. I chuckled because usually you take photos of different creatures in trees 🙂
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Thanks Janice, they are just 2 more animals, not as graceful as the possums though
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Sad story with some truly awkward pictures of the tree pruning.
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Thanks Cathy, sometimes neighbourhoods protest strongly when they suspect developers may strike
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brave souls…
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They get paid decent money for doing this
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I had look up American Liquid Amber, it’s a dazzler in autumn! Those men are skillful. I had a tree near to my house done a couple years ago. I was a nervous wreck. A nice post Denis.
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Thanks Pat, Lovely in Autumn until the leaves start dropping!!!
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Awkward can be a hard word to photograph, well done!
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Thanks Melissa
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Crikey, rather him than me!! That’s a job I could never do – I get queasy standing on a chair!! 😉
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Nearly everyone climbs trees when they are kids!!!! these guys had the full harness
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It’s happening here too.
Awkward
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Thats sad to hear Dorris
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