Category: Trees

  • Thanks for the memories

    Thanks for the memories

    Here is a bird’s-eye-view of a Valley Oak sitting smack dab in the middle of an Ojai road. The oak is protected, so the road must have expanded around it to handle more traffic.   Hmmm. That theme of city encroachment rings a bell. Remember? Happy children grow up in The Little House by Virginia […]

  • Tree meets tree

    Tree meets tree

    So, recently a big flatbed pulled up to our driveway to deliverĀ a new resident to our neighborhood: Electric Pole 1781856 . This pole was replacing an old pole whose name I didn’t catch before they took it away. A problem quickly arose. Seems a young Coast Live Oak was coexisting with the old pole nicely. […]