Raleighgirl wrote:

My neighbors just painted their house white and cut down every
single tree in their backyard. Yes, I know it's their right. I
fail to see why one buys a heavily wooded lot and then removes
all of the trees! ...

Maybe they are solar-power freaks like my husband When we bought our
place we loved the fact that it was one of the most shaded homes ont he
street; now Bill looks enviously at the bare lawns of some of our
neighbors Fortunately he grew up in Kansas, so cutting down trees still
seems something of a sacrilege to him ;-)

--
Susan Hogarth
"For it is very clear that in fundamental theory socialism and democracy are
almost if not quite the one and the same. They both rest at bottom on the
absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of
its members." - W. Wilson