These trees bring back many childhood memories. We had some of these in our yard. I was a tree climber when I was young and these were some of my favorite to climb. I would spend hours playing in these trees. The blooms were also pretty! I will never forget the day they cut these down, I was so upset....why would anyone cut down such a great tree? I believe I asked them what trees I was going to climb....these were by far the best in the yard!! I think they had some disease of some sort...they were probably scared I was going to break something!!!Ha! 
