Tree and Vine, Part 2

I posted recently about a redwood tree and a climbing vine near my house, and how a passerby had attempted to help the tree by pulling off the vine that had opportunistically started to climb up it.

I smiled today because I walked by the same tree and saw that it had been trimmed by the city physical plant crew. In particular, the lower branches had been cut away so that there was now about 3 feet separating the tree from the top of the fence where the vine was growing. Probably if the vine had been there, its long tendrils would have been hacked away. Instead, they had been carefully entwined back down on the fence by the woman "saving" the tree.

I guess she was really saving the vine.

Funny how intentions don't always align with consequences-- at least as we perceive them to be.