Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: emerald ash borer

  • Goodbye ash trees; goodbye money

    My ash trees are gone. All 21 of them. It changed the view from the street from this (in 2011)… …to this. The company I hired to remove the trees did a marvelous job. They also gave me hardship pricing, bless their hearts. It was still a hard check to write, but based on some…

  • An expensive little bug

    I have enough experience with small engines to know that the sounds my push mower was making were terminal. I lack enough experience with small engines to know exactly what was wrong. It didn’t matter: the engine made a sudden, sickly “hwangggg!” sound and lurched to its final rest. Thankfully, I also have a tractor, so…