Wishes

We are assigned 1 parking place and hunting rights for any other. Evidently the nearby Winn Dixie is copacetic with local cars being parked overnight since the management understands the lack of guest parking spaces at most condos. Our assigned place is W19, partially under a tropical almond tree. Every morning my windshield was covered with a huge bird dropping. I'm not sure what kind. On the list of things to investigate. Occasionally I would remember to back in, then the dropping was on the roof. Probably not good for the paint, but out of sight, out of mind. Plus there was no way my windshield wipers could clear the goop. I'd have to troop back upstairs for a wet paper towel to scrub of the worst part.

Proving once again, be careful for what you wish for, the tree trimmers came. That solved the bird dropping problem.

I assume Key Biscayne does not have an anti-hat-racking ordinance which aims to prevent massacres of trees like what happened here.

A case of wrong plant, wrong place. Better to chop them down and plant native shrubs like silver buttonwood or red-tipped cocoplum that don't grow tall enough to reach the wires and are easily cut with hedge trimmers rather than the cherry-picker the trimmers brought. I suspect planning them now and skipping the next tree trimming would pay for itself.

At least on the balcony side they left some of the palm fronds.

       

Before Tree Trimmers  

 After Tree Trimmers