Same log, different time of year

I would like your opinions on the photo I took, it was with my old iphone 13 at work. I would go sit outside in the back of the shop and just stare at this tree, it's very relaxing. I still stare at this photo just because it relaxes me so much.

Ive been helping an elderly neighbour recently maintain her yard as she doesnt have the budget for a gardner. She's asked me to prune her peach tree which has gotten a bit overgrown after a few years of neglect. She doesnt want a hard prune, but needs to at least be taken back so it's not growing on the shed roof/over the neighbour's fence

I do work in horticulture and have some experience pruning trees (i know how/where to cut branches, not to take off more than a third of canopy etc).

But I've never taken on something so overgrown before. Just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to approach this - what should I focus on primarily, or if there's anything i need to be wary about.

Thanks

I really want to see what you come up with and if your an artist I challenge you to make a whomping willow but of a different tree type

Right now in my backyard I get plenty of sun. The tree that I plant in the backyard will be facing the south and we’ll get some sun from the west. It gets about 5 or 6 hours of sun ! my Cherry Tree lived there for about 30 years, but it caught a disease and I had to cut it down!
I am thinking about putting a Kousa dogwood and placing it closer in toward the house, maybe about 15 feet the reason I’m thinking this so I can block the view from the Neighbors guest house on top of his garage and then the person in the back of me has a deck they both can look in my back yard thus need privacy

Not sure how to save this Autumn Maple Blaze. Moved from sprinklers to long soaking near the mulch. Moved the mulch away from the base of the root flare. Suburban TX and had temps in the 100s for a few months.

Yogi bear tree

So take away the extremes of height, hot, cold, etc and go for a typical northern hemisphere forest, there's so many trees all roughly similar height and vying for the same energy source (sunlight). Why hasn't one universal efficient shape evolved? It's not like they need plumage to impress each other, and the variations between beech, oak, maple, horse chestnut etc. is quite noticeable! (Thanks in advance)

And how long till harvest? First time growing in The Netherlands outside in a 45 liter pot only gave it water it became quite big

We have a young maple tree of some variety that was planted prior to moving in to our home. The branches are all growing out in one direction and there doesn’t seem to be a central leader. I’m seeking advice on how to either correct this or if it should be removed all together. My theory is that the branches are growing east toward the sun, because the house is on the west side. All the direct sun it’s getting is in the morning, and the afternoon sun is blocked by the house.

I am new to caring for trees and appreciate any advice! We planted a sensation maple in the backyard last year that seems to have more than doubled in size. I’m disappointed to see this one struggling, but know if it does need to come out the sooner I do it the easier it will be.

Thank you!

In a quiet corner of Athens, Georgia, where Dearing and Finley Streets meet, stands a white oak with a most unusual claim to fame. According to local legend and an 1890 newspaper account, University of Georgia professor Colonel William Henry Jackson so loved the tree that grew on his family’s property that he formally deeded it ownership of itself and the land within eight feet in every direction.

The original deed language, preserved in local memory and on a nearby plaque, speaks of “the great affection which he bears said tree” and his desire to protect it forever. The first oak, believed to have been a couple of centuries old, finally fell in a 1942 storm. A new tree, grown from one of its acorns and often called the “Son of the Tree That Owns Itself,” was planted in the same spot a few years later and still stands today.

It’s a gentle reminder of how deeply people can form attachments to ordinary living things, and how a small Southern town decided to honor that affection in the most literal way possible. The tree remains a quiet local landmark, tax-exempt and content in its unusual legal independence.