The demise of the"Altamont Farm"

So at the trail head for an un-named private trail is a empty house. In it's yard are two peach trees, right by the curb, and a fig tree (turkey fig I think) that produces huge, racquetball sized fruit. I should say was as they are no more. I rode past said house yesterday on the way to my first mtb ride in weeks and they were all gone. The house has a new roof on it, there was a pile of debris by the road and a trailer full of lumber out front. I assume someone bought it or the family decided to try to do something with it. This is good since I'd rather not have vacant houses in the neighborhood but did they have to take the fruit trees? I have a feeling no one identified the peach trees before removal since there aren't many of them in the city and they would have been bare (it is fall) but the fig trees are pretty hard to miss. Figs are pretty easy to grow and produce quickly so that's not as upsetting as the peaches but to get a mature one that puts out hundreds of really big figs will take a few years and the peaches are gone forever. I know it's not my house and, to get the figs, I had to trespass practically to the front porch but damn! It sure was a treat to finish a ride and stop for a snack or fill up pockets with peaches before the ride home.

Fig was under those two windows on the right

and the peach trees were right up front on the curb.

ALL GONE!