On May 25, 5:24*am, Pat Kiewicz wrote:
Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward said:



I'm told they might be ill and due to be cut down soonish:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3035/...88245b50_b.jpg

What do you think?

They look like my neighbor's spruce which has only gotton worse
and worse every year. *Now it looks to have spread to his other
spruce. *The tree started going downhill soon after our street was
paved.

(His are badly placedtreesto begin with, huge, in a small front
yard, with power lines in front of them. *I'm sure the cost of
removing them would be too much for him, as a retiree.)

Something similar happened to the sprucetreesat the local
elementary school when they expanded the nearby parking lot.

May I hazard a guess that that nice blacktop running along
the line oftreeswas fairly recently done?

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

After enlightenment, the laundry

I think you've put your finger on it - here's an article I just found
describing exactly what you're talking about, and it seems to be the
case with these trees:

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/lpro022/lpro022.htm