Tarzan's Tree Trimming

About Tarzan's Tree Trimming

October turns the cottonwoods in Kit Carson Park a yellow so loud it lights the adobe walls from the outside. Those trees drink from acequias older than the pavement, and they grow big enough to need a hand — pruning back the heavy ends, taking out the wood that died quietly last summer. Trimming along the narrow lanes keeps branches off portal roofs, gates and power lines without spoiling the shade a whole street depends on. When a trunk finally hollows, removal is rigged down over mud walls that do not forgive a dropped limb. And after a spring gale comes over the ridge, storm damage cleanup gathers the wreck and sweeps the courtyard clean.