And then there was one

Only God can grow a tree. Its one of his creations from the seed to the sapling...
  "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden"....
Where just yesterday there were three, now there stands one...

In our front yard we have been shaded by these three trees. An Oak, a Pine, and a Cedar. They say you can tell the age of a tree by the rings in the trunk.

The Pine and the Cedar were already growing when we moved in our home over forty years ago and the Oak sprouted up many years later. Its a bitter sweet thing that we had to cut them down today for safety reasons ,because they were leaning towards our house and the storms here in the south can be really bad. They will be missed but the memories will stay with us always.

Thank you God, for the shade you gave us from these trees. For the times our children and grandchildren played under them. Thank you for providing homes for the many birds that built their nests and had their baby's in these trees. Thank you for the pinecones, thou we complained a lot, you used them to feed the squirrels and the deer that wondered in our yard.  Thank you for keeping them standing during so many countless storms and not falling on our home or harming us. Thank you for loaning us these trees all these years.

This large Oak will have a big job to do now.

Now the cleanup begins....