Before & after pictures: Set 2 (see below for story!)
View from front driveway side of house...The two crepe myrtles closest to the house were also crepe "murdered" as we like to say. Sy had tried to prune them the week before, but we were so glad to have Mike & his chainsaw to just go ahead and put them out of their misery!

View of the back bedroom-side of the house from the backyard: A beautiful yellow creeping rose that had creeped its way one too many times into the house through those 6 windows, is now gone :( The crazy bush behind Sy's garden, and all those shruberyish bushes along the back of the house were removed and Mike's tiller worked wonders. We even discovered a garden border that was already there, but we didn't know went the full perimeter of the bed. Azaleas once again took their place with some existing fern to hopefully fill in around them on the corner of the house.