Nooooo --- the neighbourhood apple tree is GONE!!!

What a sad realization!  The neighbourhood apple tree, which gave THE most delicious, perfect apples I have ever tasted in my whole entire life, is no longer there!  No sign of it.  Come to think of it, I don't remember getting any apples from it last fall, though with Scooter's illness I never realized it at the time.  So, I think the apple tree has been gone for at least a year or so.  Sigh.