Earlier today our friends from Knowles Tree Services tipped up to trim the leylandii hedge to the side of our house. Leylandii, if you're not from the UK, are insanely stupid things that grow 38 feet a day and produce great, permanent and ugly dead patches if you trim them back more than half an inch. Ours, when it belonged to someone else, were allowed to run out of control to the extent that when Our Friends from Knowles Tree Services arrive they bring with them a truck full of chain saws and a 20 metre cherry picker. Just to trim a domestic garden hedge.

Anyhoo .... when someone sticks a cherry picker in my back yard - actually my neighbour's back yard, it's too big to fit in my back yard - I get to wondering what the view might be like from that high. So I asked them and 20 minutes, 50 feet in the air later, more than a little nervous, having a fair idea of what a 50 ft fall can do to a head, this was the shot I got. Stitched together from eight 11 megapixel images, at 300dpi it'll print at roughly 6 feet across. If I can find a 6 feet across printer..

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Information on the house and it's architect at mervynseal.com