Pruning the trees

Here's a truck taking away the cuttings from trees they were pruning around town.  It struck me for a few reasons:

1. The tropical nature of the trees (still getting used to the [lush, year-round] vegetation around here)

2. It reminded me how I've seen them pruning the trees - take a rickety bamboo ladder [pieces of bamboo tied together with string], lean it against a tree, climb it with no safety equipment and chop away.  Don't put up any signs telling folks what you're doing - if they can't see trees are being pruned - they deserve a branch on their head!  Sam almost had that experience - lesson learned!