Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: severe pruning affect Fall color of Sugar Maple?, 1 by shortleaf2005

shortleaf2005 wrote:
Hi all, there is a Sugar Maple down the street right in front of a grade school down there.
It has been pruned considerably due to going in to power lines and blocking a school sign (I can only guess).

I realize that some trees have much better Fall colors in some years than other years, but one can't help but wonder if the tree is very unhappy with this recent pruning and is rebel'ling. I have lived here (the second time) for 16 years and I have seen this on-again off-again thing with this tree, but this year the Fall color is about the worse I've ever seen on it.
I believe the poor place-ment of this tree isn't going to bode well for its future mature size, which is also a pity.
Maybe its just me, because I know of its dis-figurement now. Well, just take a look at the photos.

I'll post 2 photos of the tree. They are 2 years and 364 days apart, 1 day shy of exactly 3 years apart (the dates are on the photos). The 3 year old photo is Nov. 1st 2002 and the recent one is Nov. 2nd 2005. Notice the removal of a large limb down low on the left side?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/w4i0a/trees/native/Ds... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/w4i0a/trees/native/DS...

Will

p.s. I was having a bit of a learning experience on getting these pics in the post. Sorry if it looks a little wrong.
If there is a photo in the post its the one from 3 years ago, the present-day photo is in the link, as is the 3 year old one in a link and also in the post. At any rate, there is only 2 photos.
I was just a bit stymied when I tried to get 2 pics in the post, they only allow one that I can see, and no html can be used.