David Tracey » arboriculture

killer app-les

David Tracey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:16:48 +0000

We’ve been experimenting with cider lately, but nothing on this scale: a photo essay from the Guardian on an apple’s journey from tree to pub in England. Some of it is wrong (the caption writer isn’t an apple grower) and some of it Monty Pythonesque (they harvest with a stick?) but it’s all interesting and — fair warning — may make you thirsty. Cider rules!

Beat it, just beat it.

Chainsaw Massacre

David Tracey — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:13:58 +0000

We're stumped.

The first cut is the deepest. But it was probably the 10th or 20th that turned this tree into an elongated stump. People. Please. Have some respect. These are trees. They’re living things, providing beauty and and nobility and oxygen and shade and a constant reminder of the splendour of the natural world in which we live. When you axe one to a shape like this, what message do you think you send?