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Tree trimming on 900 Wisconsin St.

On Sunday, Nov. 8, I set out to do some tree trimming with with Karter Bui, one of my fellow neighbors on the 900 block of Wisconsin.

We wanted to:

Make the block safer by increasing visibility. The trees blocked people from seeing up and down the street, and from residents' windows to the street
Make the street look better, by trimming back the overgrown trees

Karter and I kicked off the tree trimming at 2 pm. Before long, other neighbors joined us to help. More important, many more donated their compost bins. The tough part about tree trimming isn't cutting the branches, it's finding a place to put all the trimmings. It was a great neighborhood activity that brought a lot of people together, and allowed me to have some fun monkeying up my tree. I strongly encourage any other blocks to do the same kind of activity — it really allows people to meet their neighbors and improve their block.

Here's the slideshow of today's trimmings. We'll do another round soon:

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