He's a Man With a Vision...

So this is what we came home to yesterday.

And yes, this was done on purpose, with our knowledge. In fact, we PAID someone to do it.

I have no "before" pictures to share, but just imagine that all those logs on the ground used to be upright, and used to be called trees.

I have to admit that it gives me a yucky feeling to see all the murdered trees. Especially because it's almost winter and the yard already looks so bare with all the foliage gone. Now it just looks so naked to me.

In fact, the day Minh marked them all for death, with orange survey tape, I think I required a lengthy oral argument for why each one needed to be killed. I tried to save as many as I could, but the man had a plan. And when my man has a plan, he's hard to dissuade.

Minh assures me that he spent long nights plotting and planning and carefully deciding which trees should go and which should stay. He's got a master plan and promises me it's all going to be worth it in the end.

He's calming me down with promises of better views of the starry nights from the hot tub, fewer oak leaves littering the deck and yard, beautiful flowers bordering the lawn, abundant sun for our herb gardens and (probably sometime around May 2008) a kick-ass swing set for the nugget.

Knowing Minh and the fact that he does not generally jump into things without thinking them through, I'm sure he's right and in the end I'll be thanking him for his vision. But for now it just looks like a graveyard to me.