Today, it has been 8 months since I started a photography project in which I would take a picture of the same tree every day for a year. I just heard a noise outside. They cut the tree down. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I woke up and found that the tree in my front yard was gone. FML
Today, I was awakened by the sound of chain-saws. Moments later a tree branch came through my roof. FML
Today, I got home to find my truck smashed by a fallen old tree. I was going to have the tree removed next week. FML
Today, I finally went to Home Depot to buy a chainsaw to cut down the tree leaning dangerously over my garage. When I got home, I found the tree had fallen and taken out the roof while I was shopping. FML
Today, my boss sent me to remove a tree from a client's home. So I went and cut down the tree, only for my boss to show up an hour later, speechless. I was supposed to remove a sapling that had sprouted through the driveway tarmac, not the 100-year-old prizewinning Japanese cherry tree. FML
Today, a 100-foot maple tree fell on my house. I was inside. I was sleeping. FML
Today, I watched one of my neighbor's trees fall into the electrical lines outside my house. This was after he took a chainsaw to the tree. He refuses to cover the damages. FML
Today, a storm dropped a tree across my road. I would have moved it with my tractor, but there was a tree on that too. FML
Today, I woke up at 4AM to the sound of lightning hitting a tree in my backyard, then that tree proceeding to hit my house. Later, my neighbor's tree fell over, which hit our fence, and they're not even home. FML
Today, my husband finally got round to cutting down a tree limb in our front yard after months of me begging him. It fell on me. FML
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kristen2322 0
That's so sad. You can keep doing the project and just show the stump. Turn it into some artsy go green anti-human thing.
hazelmango 2
I guess your 'stumped' then.
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Comments (264)
GamerMaster2041 12
Sue them for ruining really expensive 10 years project. 29 million should cover your loses
jerilyn333a 0
dude I would be PISSED
buckie123 3
keep taking the pictures everyday...it should still count.
thedeaddie 0
That project was cut short
thew_fml 14
i agree with others =- it does not ruin the project at all. either end it there, or photograph the spot for 4 months. both are legitimate. it shows the real world
spidergirl0408 0
well OP make that your last picture then make the next picture a casket and put the tree died *sad face* lol
gtrgdss 0
I guess part of your plan didn't include telling THEM. sorry for your artistic loss. you know- "the best laid plans" thing.
pixiedustedd 4
just keep taking a picture of the space where the tree was.
missnuthin 10
Easy. Keep taking pictures of the severed stump exactly as if the tree was still there. It'll turn into some obscure art-hipster-esque reference to the futility and eventual decay of life.
Cloudmaker 3
keep on taking pictures and insist that it's there in spirit and in our hearts. alas, we shall miss our leafy friend