My Pear Tree Is Gone

Life for me just got sunnier.
Demonstrating that (at least in response to the sound of chainsaws at close range) I will get up from my chair and go to the window to bring you a breaking story, I am sorry to report that the pear tree outside my apartment is now gone.
The villians started their chainsaws promptly at 8:00 this morning, and were gone (along with the tree and the chirping birds) by noon.