Taken

The clanging of chains disturbed our otherwise peaceful breakfast.

Curious, I looked off our lanai to find a men with a large tree-cutting truck unchaining their machinery. They were preparing to cut down the beautiful orange flower tree right outside our window that gives us privacy and shade, and treats us with songs of birds and occasional bird visitors, both on our lanai and occasionally in the house. The morning was then scarred by the cacophony of power saws cutting down that beautiful tree. I didn't want to look outside and I almost got teary eyed thinking about it. The morning before they locked the gate to the grassy area. The only one around unless we took a walk to the army base across the street. There are plans to close the pool, too. I feel like our little apartment building is slowly turning into a mini concrete project.