IN NEED OF SURGERY!

Our poor old beautiful ash tree is infested with bark beetles! The tree surgeons are now telling us it must have surgery! The downer is that we can't operate until next year. I guess we have to treat the tree first w/ some special fertilizers both this fall and next spring. Then once the tree is out of "shock" and is more stabilized we can go ahead with the surgery to rid it of it's poor dying branches. Meanwhile the neighbors have to live with the eye sore it has become for a whole year! We are just thankful the tree can be saved. It provides us with much needed shade in the heat of summer and some lovely tranquility for our "in the works" front patio area! They told us since Colorado has basically been in a drought now for 10 years, this made for a perfect nest for the oh so gross bark beetles. Guess it takes a while for their work to become evident.

This June was the wettest June on record for Denver since 1892! We actually have mosquitoes here, we NEVER have them, thank goodness! I'm not thinking this means we are actually out of the drought, but it's a step in the right direction for all of the old beautiful trees in our neighborhood!