The time had come to get vehicles wider than my mini-truck onto the land, so I needed to take down a live cedar with a dead alder leaning up against it

To one side were power lines. To the other side was a massive big leaf maple with this amazing burl about 20 feet up

I’d begun arrangements for the removal by a professional months ago. Recently learning to climb trees a bit gave me a deeper appreciation of how dangerous and skillful the work is of removing a tree with precision.

I was really happy that the people I hired made it look as easy as they did.