Tree Debris (Pt. II)

 Typical streetscape weeks after the ice storm.
Typical streetscape weeks after the ice storm.

Tree Debris (Pt. I) covered some of the devastation as a result of a widespread ice storm that engulfed the Greater Toronto Area in December 2013. Imagine the city canopy as an open canopy ; dysfunctional forest; forcing trees into artificial design (construct) and expecting them to behave as if they are in a confined area (forest) which would produce a closed canopy; but we’ve released the pressure to stay confined by planting them on road edges or in the open without others around

Norway maple branch down. The "crime scene" just over two years earlier Oct. 2012)
Norway maple branch down. The “crime scene” just over two years earlier (Oct. 2012), but facing south, rather than north.