Surprise Tree Removal

On Sunday, people came to the vacant lot to the west of Fernley House and cut down nearly all of the trees on the lot, including most of those along the fence that separates our house from that lot.

( Trees Into Brush )

We don't know why the trees were cut down. There was a real estate agent here a year or two ago hawking this lot as a place to build a 4-plex or 6-plex, which seemed optimistic to me, but maybe that's what's happened here. Alternatively, the owner may have had the lot cited as a fire hazard and decided to just clear-cut it.