Magnificant Gum Hits the Ground

The sound of a chainsaw has been echoing over my back fence for the last two days.  Yesterday a man hung from the huge and magnificent gum in my neighbour's back yard and sawed off branches one by one. They made enormous thuds as they fell. There were a couple of branches left by the end of the day and I hoped that the tree had just been trimmed but today they were back and now all that stands is a trunk.

This was a gum tree, huge and magnificent.