{{{Beverly}}} My grandparents had to take down "Elmer" a few years ago. It was planted when they built the house, survived Dutch-Elm disease. It was a great tree.

I hate it when people take down trees for silly reasons. Tree was there before the power lines.

{{Beverly}} I feel your pain. Between the huge trees felled by the hurricanes and those taken by development we are becoming a city of bushes. It breaks my heart.

{{beverly}} that hurts esp when with a little effort they could save them and have power lines.

happy birthday Em! no way it has been a year.

and the cookbook deadline extention has not helped me get my act together. I am trying. My poor family - both my sisters and mom are getting them But we do that to each other.

eta: I love the cover

Beverly, it IS sad making.

Do you have any tree activist people in the area? I know some cities do, New York has a whole "anti-arborcide" thing. If you found them maybe they could pitch a well-informed fit on your behalf.

I could throw a very UN-formed fit on your behalf.

I'll throw it right now.

t throws fit

Princess Ellie would like to wish HRH, Princess Emeline a Happy First Birthday!

Oaks aren't protected? Maybe that's only in my head. It's a darn shame that Beverly's are being treated badly by the power co.

I was surprised by how well the trees in Audubon Park and along St. Charles did after Katrina. Many many still standing w/o even a lot of gaps from broken branches. t /hurricanes like carrots

Goodness, has it been a year? Happy Birthday Princess Emeline!

And when the princess army gets going, perhaps they could get their clothes from here.

Where are the Ents when you really need them?

Happy birthday to big girl Emeline! I think Emmett started to grow hair finally after his first birthday.

Wish me luck, Bitches, I just sent in my book pitch. Eeep. I want this one so much. It'd be the first one I wrote entirely by myself.

Book~ma to you, Hec.

And thank you for the image of an Ent picking up a Duke Power truck and tossing it in the Eno River.