fallen palo verde tree, my yard

The pictures can tell the story....I did all the cutting last night, and pushed my 1989 Nissan Pulsar out from beneath the giant limbs of an untoward and overgrown palo verde tree....luckily, no damage other than a few scratches.....I'm waiting for the tree trimming people to come and cut the tree and haul the limbs away. These desert trees are actually giant bushes, and profer horrible nail thorns. Tarah says to cut the whole thing down - note that one side is still erect, yet about to fall on my neighbor Linda's driveway and maybe her house....I say, wrap a chain around the thing and straighten it out, like I did with the palo verde that's in the center front of my yard when I first bought my house on 9.13.02. Someone had run it over before I moved in, and the tree was much smaller then, so straps and my then-Ford Explorer and a guiding friend helped me straighten it, and voila! The strongest and healthiest tree in the yard. And aside, the renegade. What symbolic gesture in thee?


fallen tree, looking towards neighbor's yard


the fallen tree, view of my house