Let the sun shine in!

This is was a tree on Mary Street, guess the homeowners had no use for it. A reader sent it in. Turns out the tenants who rent the house complained about the falling leaves, so the landlord/homeowner, demolished the trees. Wait till they see the fine they are going to receive, it would have been cheaper to hire a kid to rake up the leaves once a month.

UPDATE: The tenants did not complain about the trees, the house owner was concerned about having the tree trimmed for hurricane insurance reasons, the insurance company asked that it be done. A tree service was hired and while no one was present, they had at it and this is the result. The incompetent tree trimming service did this without anyone's permission!

Speaking of trees, the tree removal is about to start on Florida Avenue, the surveyors are out, they are ready to change out the old trees for new trees. 



I took this photo over the weekend, it's the new paint job at Coldwell Banker at the triangle of McFarlane, Main and Grand. Looks great. But my friend who was with me joked and said that I should photoshop the trees out since they will not be there when the street scape project gets to that section. I left the trees in the photo, but when that huge tree is down, I'll post another photo of the after shot. We'll compare.

UPDATE: After this story was run I was notified that we don't need to compare, I am told this is not one of the trees that is being switched out. The goal is hopefully to get rid of the two lanes going south and just have one lane, which would allow the sidewalk to be widened and allow the large tree to stay! People would then just walk on either side of the tree and still be on the sidewalk.


Here are a couple of shots of Florida Avenue yesterday, the tree demolition begins. This looks like Villa Mayfair valet parking area to be. I heard that Villa Mayfair is returning in October, revamped from a high end French restaurant to an American-style restaurant.