This weekend Your Scribe will be involved in what might be called a fashionably green weekend: I will be addressing concerns of green dollars and green trees.

No. 1 - I need some trees cut down. They threaten the cabin. Several fell this spring that could have ruined the structure.

Bob the Reluctant Woodsman has not risen to the task. Despite the fact that we had a contract since last July, he has yet to bring down a single branch.

So I am turning to Gary, the Energetic Logger. Gary did some work in the woods near my place, and razed every tree that ever hosted as much as a raindrop or a chickadee. I know he will do something. But we have to agree on how much.

No. 2 - Terry the Renter recently approached with an "offer" to buy a couple acres of my land. The people who own the place he rents up our little dirt road have sold, and Terry must leave. But he doesn't want to desert the "neighborhood."

I must remember several things while talking with Terry.

Forget the prices of Down East magazine. You read that ritzy monthly, and you feel like you can sell your mailbox for six figures. But most of the land they advertise is on the Coast, and prices are far lower in Franklin County.

Also, I will check with Town Hall to see if they have records of recent comparable sales. I should go to the Franklin County Courthouse but it is not open on Saturdays.

Plus, many wizened land traders will tell you that a piece of land is worth what you can get for it.

No. 3 - I am also hoping to talk to a tree specialist from the state.

A huge spruce along the river is about to fall into the inscrutable Sandy. I am wondering if there is a service to take down the tree before it becomes a menace in the river.

Or that failing, how do you go about removing it once it is submerged? There must be some program, for erosion-prone rivers like the Sandy have trees topple all the time. If they were never removed, there wouldn't be much canoeing going on.

It sounds like a weekend for asking questions and trading information.

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