Who Needs Trees Anyway?

Monday morning our next-door neighbor (who cut down all his big trees) finished things off by cutting down the remaining smaller trees in his front yard... so now the only thing standing upright in his front yard is the plane Jane 20 ft tall flag pole which stands out even more now. Their yard now looks uglier than I ever thought it could. It is slowly becoming more and more "rednecky".

So this evening we swung by Lowes and came home with 3 fruit trees (Apple, Pear, & Plum) to plant along the property line in the lower yard -- mainly to make a point about planting trees, and to help establish our property boundaries, and to provide some sort of visual barrier between us and them.
...And also because trees are good for the environment!
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We are also going to plant a line of thicker barrier trees (possibly Leeland Cypress) along the property line between our two houses (in the upper yard) so we won't have to look into their cluttered carport and see their ugly yard & house whenever we're on the back deck or in the backyard. We'll try to get that all done sometime this week (or next).

Here's a cute cartoon about global warming.