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The Tree Couple

Posted on January 7, 2011

It had to come down.  But because it leaned over the pool and close enough to the house to do some damage I knew it would require special equipment and techniques to prevent the trunk from launching a truck or tractor into the house like a trebuchet. It was above my pay-grade.  We had to call in experts.  And we knew just who to call, Todd and his wife Kim Richards.

Fortunately, they were right in Pine Plains and I actually contacted them through our high tech communications system — running into them at Stewart’s.  They showed up the next morning.

Todd had quite a different approach.  Take it down from the top!  As you will see, this was a tall order.

Then the branches had to be cut…

lunch:

finish

Now the final pole

When I told friends about the video and asked if they knew Todd and Kim there was usually  pause and a thoughtful frown until they came up with “Oh, the Tree Couple!”  And so that is how I named this sequence.

2 thoughts on “The Tree Couple”

  1. rudi alex says:
    July 3, 2012 at 12:12 am

    i love tree…… plant…. can you show me the picture. nice picture…… i’m wait…..

    Reply
    1. stan says:
      July 3, 2012 at 8:30 am

      This comment came all the way from Malaysia! Batu Caves, Selangor, to be exact.

      Reply

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I came to Pine Plains by choice, not by chance of birth.

But the small-town rural community I chose is changing. The farmers have, for the most part, sold to people from the city and fields are becoming lawns.

And, like the land, people, too, are becoming subdivided as difference breeds distance rather than discourse.

I have been making these videos to preserve and reconstitute what I can of a changing way of life and to share it with the community.

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Stan Hirson

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