Yesterday evening I noticed our leafy backyard looked noticeably less leafy. It seems our neighbors behind us decided to clear-cut their backyard, removing the lovely natural screen we enjoyed that made our backyard so cozy. It’s their right, of course, as most of the trees between us belong to them, but we sure miss ’em. And just last weekend we were proudly showing off our leafy backyard to my parents.
We’ve got a 20-foot buffer between our back fence and our property line, which we may now fortify with some good screening shrubbery or trees.
Update 17 June 2009: It turns out their cutting was far more modest. There’s still a good number of trees back there, so that’s good.