Requiem for a Sign-Eating Tree

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The tree that had eaten the "NO HUNTING" sign down to "HUNT" by 2009 continued eating over the years until lately the sign just said, "UN." I was going to photograph it for an update, but I waited too long. Now tree and sign have both fallen, and how, I ask you, will the future generations of Ainsworth be told about "UN"?

There's been a whole lot of tree- and brush-cutting around here in anticipation of a big utility-pole-replacement project coming up. The tree people cut down numerous invasive species that were growing on my property, thus saving me some work.