California Gardening: Tree Pruning as an Art, 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
OK, here 'tis. Compare this to 3/22 9:01 a.m. and see if you can see the change. My mind has a difficult time wrapping itself around the difference in the photos, but there IS a difference. And the following picture shows the two trees side-by-side.

If you can even imagine this, when I first moved in here in 1976 there was actually a similarly-aged Modesto Ash wedged there in between the two Mulberries! I was taking a break nearby the second year and heard this odd sound, tweeeak thweeajk, tweeeak thweeajk and looked up to find that the main trunk was split down the middle. Since it WAS a tree The City would have planted they were out the next day to take that dude out and grind the stump down to nothingness -- obviously not wanting it to return in any form {chuckling}. Obviously a threat to our property!

Linda