That's a big hole!

Many of you are familiar with the drama surrounding the trees in the park in our neighborhood.  The readers digest version of what happened is that the city did an end run on cutting down many (read "all") of the big beautiful oak trees (11 in total) for concern of the safety of citizens from falling limbs.  I must mention at this point in the story that in the 100+ year history of these said trees this never happened, but just to be safe the city spent $100k to remove them.  Many of us put up a hard fight, but in the end the trees came down with the promise from the city that replacement mature trees would be planted.

one of 9 holes that were dug today for our new trees

Fast forward to this month when work began to install an irrigation system in the park to keep the new trees hydrated once they get here.  At the same time a team of neighbors went to a special nursery in Ocala Florida to pick out the mature Oaks that will be coming to live in our park.  They are suppose to be quite large, and judging by the 9 holes that were dug today in the park they must be.  I am going to try to document the event with a before during and after shot from the same place in a future blog so look for it in the next few days.  I will apologize in advance for the Oak heavy nature of the blog topic but, hey, this is big stuff around these parts!