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The family of homeowner Rachel Wier band together to cut up and clear a large ponderosa pine that landed and blocked the road at 4100 N. Hawthorne Street, Wed. Nov. 18, 2015. (Colin Mulvany / Spokesman-Review)
The family of homeowner Rachel Wier band together to cut up and clear a large ponderosa pine that landed and blocked the road at 4100 N. Hawthorne Street, Wed. Nov. 18, 2015. (Colin Mulvany / Spokesman-Review)

I think that I shall never see
a stump as lovely as a tree,
and if more windstorms come to call
perhaps I'll see no trees at all.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer and Ogden Nash) 
 

D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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