Behind our house once stood seven tall old pine trees that gave a lovely, private, quiet feeling to the yard. I loved the shade that they provided, even though it did make things hard to grow. In the winter, the trees were so beautiful, covered with snow, and in the spring and summer, they protected the house from the afternoon sun. But in one wild burst during the summer of 2024, a destructive derecho uprooted three of them. There was complete havoc in the space they had occupied: huge stumps, twisted roots, and a ripped-up concrete slab outside our storage shed. The area where the trees were had always been too dark to think about using as a place to build a studio, but after the stumps were cleared, the slab re-poured, and the damaged part of the shed demolished (all of which took the fall and winter of 2024), I could finally build a studio. It was nature’s renovation.
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