Any reasonable homeowner would have hired an arborist to remove it years ago. It was scrawny by anyone's standards. What must have been a magnificent dogwood tree at one time, what was left standing now was a mere shell. The trunk clearly had been eaten away by insects or rotted by disease. On one side you could see all the way to its core. A few persistent branches graced the upper most portion of the tree determined to embrace life until it could sustain it no more.

This show is brought to you by Talk 4 Radio (http://www.talk4radio.com/) on the Talk 4 Media Network (http://www.talk4media.com/).