Sunday, June 12, 2016

California Drought and Our old Oak Tree

We woke up one morning this last week to discover a large part of one of our majestic old oak trees had split off  and was strewn over our property. We are in our 4th year of a terrible drought in California.  We took a closer look at some of our other trees, noticing cracks here and there as well. Time to call the Tree Guys. We're looking at $2400 worth of work to take down more major branches before they fall down and trim everything up.  Here's some photos.



You can see the rust colored part of the tree to the right and above the basketball hoop where the branch broke off. I'd say a quarter of the tree came down.

Other than dealing with that, school is out for the students
 and one last professional day for me Monday.  Yeah!!

1 comment:

  1. Sorry to see about the trees... when we moved here from CA in '03, AZ was in the midst of a long drought, and the Pine Bark beetles were destroying many of the pines. Fortunately, we started to get more rain and snow over the next few years to begin healing the area. Hope you get more rain over the next few years to save the trees. Meanwhile, enjoy your vacation!

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