Among the reasons Sarah Austin chose to live at the corner of Loomis Street and Olive Road in Homewood: She loves her bungalow, she loves the neighborhood and she loved the seven beautiful ash trees that shaded the property.
Notice the past tense.
Sarah Austin, left, shows RonEhlers the door she has craftedfor a children's book sectionof the Little Free Library thetwo are building in Homewood. (Photo by Eric Crump/TheChronicle)
All ash trees are gone, victims of the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle whose larvae gobble the . . .