Requiem For A Tree

My personal favourite tree in the entire neighbourhood has been cut down.

This magnificent tree stood at the south east corner of Commercial & Adanac.  Its majestic dome of a canopy was a wonder to behold.  I used to see it just about every day as I waited for the #20 going south, and I would day dream about the photographs I could take of shapes and patterns.

But no more.  That wonderful tree is now a pile of lumber surrounding a stump.

I guess the tree was on city land. I wonder if they have to go through the same rigorous processes that they quite rightly enforce on property owners seeking to remove a tree.  Somehow I doubt it.