Big Sky

You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad.
-The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros


Usually I would agree with this statement but not in this case. Below is the photo I took last summer of a tree limp that had fallen into in the street. Below that is a photo taken this summer of the same street. What looks like a small bush in that photo is what is left of the massive 100 year-old tree that used to stand there.






The tree was cut down last fall because the city was afraid that the loss of that large a section of the tree made the rest of the tree unstable. It is amazing how such a large tree can become invisible. I drove or walked down this street almost every day and never once really thought about that tree. The day the tree was cut down I was not in town. When I came back the next day and turned my car into the street I was almost blinded by sunlight. It was a little disorienting for me until I saw the reason why. The tree was gone. Until that moment I never realize how much that tree dominated the street. I felt sad because the tree was gone and now the sky too big.