This is one of three huge maples, planted long before my ...

This is one of three huge maples, planted long before my father was even a gleam in the designer's eye. Due to the sheer idiocy of the arborists hired by the power company to keep the lines clear, (they cut one of the two main branches, essentially splitting the tree in half, vertically!) the resulting core rot and a brief, intense thunderstorm shattered it in half yet again. Now the poor thing will have to come down, sooner or later. Grr... It lived longer than the idiots have been in bu...