Orange marks the spot

Recently, the city works department of Galveston marked all of the dead trees from the storm that line the streets. These orange-marked trees are to be cut down & removed by the city. Much of the Historical District is lined with (what used to be) big, beautiful oak trees. Many of them date back to The Great Storm of 1900! What once was a shady canopy of trees lining the streets, has now become skeleton-like branches. As the city systematically removes the dead trees we've been reminded just how entirely empty a tree-less space looks. (It was definitely a visual adjustment for us last year when we lost all of the trees in our backyard.) Thankfully, our "marked" tree is not one we will entirely miss-- we're looking forward to replanting a Bottle brush tree in it's place. The trees in our yard that fared the best (as well as all over the island) are the Palms & Norfolk pine. We are especially thankful for our beautiful Norfolk pine that survived.... swimmingly ;)