Didn't you pick them to brew some tea?

@FrayedBear They were in a field where many walk their dogs like I was, so, no.........

Why would anyone do such a thing as to cut them down?

@Mooolah I wondered the same myself. They were magnificent.

However it seems to run in the genes round here. 2 years ago I returned from empowering others to vacation knowing that their pets were in good care to find that the neighbour on my my right had trespassed & cut down a 30' - 40' high healthy tree to a stump 2' high. The following year as it was sending forth new shoots they came in & had another go this time drilling 1" holes in the flat trunk top & probably putting poison in. The tree is still flourishing on. . . & The yucca that I put in to fill the gap is now also coming along nicely.

@FrayedBear Neighbors! The result of civilization.

@Mooolah the start of rare retribution by myself. I've planted a miniature forest of giant dahlias behind the shed adjacent to their yard. The copiuos flowers result in hundreds of air borne seeds to drift into their yard. I reckon in about 20 years the neighbourhood will be declared a dahlia disaster zone!

@Mooolah you know that the first war was created by a woman? Living in the cave with her husband Th'Ug she complained "Karen next door has a bigger warmer & drier cave than ours. She has a little stresm flowing through, we just have dripping walls & ceiling. Her cooking fire smoke goes straight up a fissure in the rock, ours eventually out that big entry that lets the cold, bears & lions in." She then put the cap on it by telling Th'ug that the couple had privacy in their sleeping alcove... And so the first neighbour war & slaughter started!

@FrayedBear I remember it well. =0}

And indeed it will result in death.

@Mooolah No shit?