Local Tree Attemps to Devour Portland

Continuing along with the theme of The Portland You Miss from a Car, here’s one of our elder trees who is actually trying to do something about the rampant, unbridled encroachment of civilization. It has gone so far as to gobble up a fire hydrant, and still, no one is paying attention. What's it goina take, people? Hello?

The fire department has merely thrown up their hands and installed a new one a few yards away. At least they weren't foolish enough to try to take the hydrant away from the tree. Then we’d really be doomed.