Maple Tree No More
Our maple tree was cut down to a stump today. I don't know why it makes me so sad that I keep writing about it in this blog, but it does. Maybe because the top of it was broken off (in a storm probably) and then it had to grow other branches bigger. And after all those years of trying to survive, it gets cut down to a stump with a few swipes of the chainsaw.
posted by wchien at 6:15 PM
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did your tree produce syrup? if so, then i am very sad for you. the four trees that can be tapped for syrup are Sugar Maple (or Hard Maple), Silver Maple (or Soft Maple), Red Maple (or Swamp Maple), and Ash Leafed Maple (or Box Elder).
i spent kindergarten and first grade in canada. i once went on a field trip to a maple farm where they produced syrup on the premises. very exciting!
i don't know if it produced syrup. after checking out a website, i have unscientifically classified the late tree as a red maple, so maybe we could have tapped it. we still have three other maple trees in our yard which helps with the sadness. :)
Even more so now--they took a machine and ground the stump into mulch. :/
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