These two, 75-year-old oak trees will be coming down tomorrow morning. The closest one in the image is directly in front of my house on Mills Avenue, Greenville, South Carolina. The tree crews will begin the removal bginning 30 minutes after sunrise, which I believe is around 6:30 am. I'm sad to see them go, since the one in front of my house shades the bog garden in the early morning hours and provides a place for song birds to rest. They are "supposed" to be replaced by canopy trees, but we will see what happens.

Mills Avenue used to be lined with these large oak trees, but over the years, disease and storms have taken their toll. They are about at the end of their expected lifetime. These are two of the remaining four trees in a half-mile stretch of Mills Avenue.

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