On trimming trees.

Up at 5. Still dark. Dull pain in the back. Hope it got better today.
Reading books on the bed with intermittent TV watching all day yesterday, I feel weak. Today I wish to go out and take some walk to see, smell and feel something autumnal on a day in the best season of a year.
The garden, when I look through the window of my room, is far brighter now after gardeners trimmed and clipped the big trees the other day. Though it revealed the ugly surface of our next-door apartment building, it is a good preparation for the coming winter. It will turn it to a warmer and brighter one.
The maple tree was beautifully trimmed retaining the original symmetrical posture and yet the branches and leaves were neatly thinned out. That's professional. I like those really professional people. They are humble but have confidence in their forte which cannot be learned in a year or two. I like the boss of the gardeners who was in charge of the maple trimming.
3 years ago I trimmed the biggest chinquapin tree（椎の木）by myself, he praised my work but he said he was afraid that the branches would soon grow with my too careful way of trimming. He was right. It grew rapidly next year to a giant tree. Some of the dwellers in the apartment beside the tree complained about it.
A dispute about border trees is one of the most difficult to solve, I heard. It may need gentleman spirit from both sides. They should be lenient about the trees on the border and we should take care of the trees. Now I fulfilled my side of responsibility. Now the ball is in their court. It's their turn to be patient with the growth of the tree which will give them a good shade in summer but a dark, dump, and cold shade in winter.