Trees a crowd

This time we're only trimming trees. Well, we're not doing it, we've hired Artistic Tree Care to make them pretty. They came today. I came home this evening and my jaw dropped.

Here are some before and after pictures of some of their work.

The big, backyard ash from the front yard before it got trimmed:
Here's the backyard ash after the trimming. The lighting is way different but you'll get the idea:
There were a lot of branches in this tree that had finished their jobs and had died. I guess that's what ash trees do. (A lot of dead stuff blows out of them when we have heavy winds.)

This is the ash tree in the front yard before the trimming:
And after:

And another ash tree on the side of the garage before its trimming:
I don't think you can see it but there was a huge branch that broke in the winds that drove October's fires. Good thing it stayed in the tree otherwise it probably would have taken down the power and telephone lines.

And after:

Then we had the oleanders under that last ash severely shortened. Here they are before:
And here they are with what was cut down on the ground in front of them:

What I first saw when I got home were the piles of ash branches that were in the front front yard and across the street. They ran out of room in our yard to store the debris. There are more heaps of ash on the other side of the oleanders below and along the fence by the neighbor's garage. I guess they're coming back tomorrow to shred all the piles.

They also ground the pine and juniper stumps you've seen earlier. And they ground out the palm stump that was left in the backyard after the hideous palms were removed years ago. The person who did that work decided that we'd like a big, ugly planter made out of a palm stump. We never used it as an ugly planter and ivy grew over it. It's gone now.