Goodbye to Nature

This is the dove in my beautiful tree surrounded by the blossoms!

So this morning I woke up to a bunch of guys walking around my apartment building and a suspicious truck parked alongside the curb. Hold on, I should back up here, when I returned home from Vegas a few weeks ago (yes, I will be blogging about that soon) I noticed an orange dot spray painted on the tree outside my apartment window. I commented to John about it and he said maybe they marked it so they would prune it or something. I took him on his word for that since he knows more about most things than me but I had a bad feeling about it. Why would they mark a tree in bright orange spray paint that they were just going to prune, right? Well my worst fears came true. This morning they chopped my tree right down and then chopped it up even more in the big truck chopper thing they brought. I call this tree "my tree" because in some ways it has been my saving grace. For all of you who have ever lived in an apartment you know how cooped up you can feel. After having the baby and staying inside for the rainy winter months I was feeling very nature deprived. Then came spring and the tree outside my front room window started to blossom - it was so pretty. Then a dove came back to her nest and laid an egg and sat on it for a while. We took pictures! Once the egg hatched every morning I would wake up to birds chirping, I would go and open my windows wide and look at the blossoms and the birds. I honestly sang, "Popcorn popping" for Maisey almost every day. The blossoms fell off while I was in Vegas but nice fat green leaves replaced them. I could go on and on but the Nature channel I am not, so needless to say I really appreciated this tree and the small bit of nature it offered to my apartment existence. I am currently in mourning right now and need to get outside asap! No more tree - I still can't believe it.