Beautification?!

This is lovely picture of my trees in the front yard. I like them.

This is a notice I got on my door Thursday afternoon.

The voices in my head were saying all kinds of bad things about the city ordinance lady. Im not a huge fan of government regulations... federal, state or city. I was mostly bugged by the 3 days... 3 DAYS?!  The last weekend before Christmas?  Does that city ordinance lady even have a clue of how crazy the last weekend before Christmas is?! Ugh.  Basically this happend.

 And this.

Then this.

Now my trees look like this.

Ugh. Im not happy about it. Now I almost want them to die in the spring so we can dig them up and I can complain about the city for the rest of my life.