2024 08 21

No tree, declares home owner. Chicago, Illinois. July, 2024. © Clayton Hauck

“No tree“

If only life were as simple as printing out a sign and clipping it to your fence.

I’m sitting on the couch watching the DNC and this photo, which I find amazing, popped into my preview. I stumbled across the sign while scooting home from a Sox game this summer. I was a bit drunk off ballpark beers and my first instinct upon seeing this, the tree lover I am, was to get a job in the city using whatever connections I could muster up, then use my newfound power to plant two trees on this fella’s parkway. That will teach him, the concrete-loving son of a—

Anyway, back to the politics beauty pageant.

-Clayton