Rain is expected for today and Sunday. It rained a bit yesterday morning. This is normal for winter here. It will not prevent us from resuming seasonal work that was interrupted by the not so normal and epically torrential rain and associated flooding earlier. A bit of the mess associated with that earlier extreme weather remains, but is not so much of an encumbrance. Spring flowers such as daffodil have been blooming for a while. Flowering cherry buds are plumpening. One flowering cherry and the only flowering apricot are in full bloom. Meanwhile, other crews work to keep the power on.
1. Debris of all sorts remains on the banks of Zayante Creek downstairs. This might be a futon. I hope that it came from an exterior patio, and not from within a home upstream.
2. Zayante Creek is right where it should be now. It was slightly above the arch just prior to midnight of New Year’s Eve. The crew’s galley is inside the windows to the upper left.
3. After all that torrential rain, another crew came to prune trees for clearance from new utility cables. The work was not bad, but they could not remove this log from the cables.
4. After the crew finished pruning a particularly large coast live oak that survived all that torrential rain, the big oak fell. Yes, it fell AFTER the storms, and AFTER it was pruned.
5. As if that were not bad enough, it left this big limb hung precariously on the new cable that they installed immediately prior to the rain! It is heavy and hooked by a small stub.
6. Landon’s Tree blooms as if none of this drama ever happened. It is a flowering apricot that grew from the understock of a purple leaf plum that was cut down several years ago.
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Tony Tomeo 
Scary work! Glad things are settling down, I am sure there is a lot more tidying up to do.
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Yes, and we need help with some of it. We do not rebuild our own roads.
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Hope the branch blows off the cable without any more damage.
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It is still up there. I need to remove another fallen tree from an adjacent roof, so may try to pull the branch from the cable while up there. I doubt that I will be able to.
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Hard work to do but a lovely photo to end on. I hope it’s your last storm.
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Well, we actually want a few more storms here. They deliver snow to the Sierra Nevada, which is the water supply for much of California.
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The apricot blooms are a treat after all that work. I hope the log and the large branch disentangle themselves harmlessly.
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So do I. The broken branch hangs over the parking space for the primary tractor.
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There is always so much work after a storm. We have had trees just fall even when it was not storming. I am in a lucky spot in Texas, as tornados hit 30 miles from me and the freeze was 100 miles. Many are without electricity because of limbs and trees falling.
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Storms are not as severe here as they are here. They just make such a mess because the region is mountainous, trees are so big, and so much vegetation grows between winters with harsh weather.
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Fruit trees have some of the most stunning blossoms. Clean up after floods can be something. I hope no more trees fall.
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This flowering apricot is related to fruiting apricot, but does not produce edible fruit. It is the understock of a purple leaf plum that was cut down several years ago. As we were debating its removal, Landon, who was in kindergarten or the first grade at the time, stopped on his way home from the school bus to tell us how much he liked it. He was not aware that we were considering removing it. He told us when it bloomed and leafed out in spring, and when it defoliated in autumn. He really watched the tree intently. As he left, we realized that we could not cut it down.
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That was really nice of you. It’s amazing what kids see and notice and study. It was probably magical to him.
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Nice? I did not want him to tell his pa that I cut down one of his trees!
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Ooh It all looks pretty dramatic ❤ Your plum under-stock looks good. I sometimes get good blooms from under-stock trees to like avian cherry trees.
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The flowering apricot was not planned. This is how I explained it to Arlingwoman, “This flowering apricot is related to fruiting apricot, but does not produce edible fruit. It is the understock of a purple leaf plum that was cut down several years ago. As we were debating its removal, Landon, who was in kindergarten or the first grade at the time, stopped on his way home from the school bus to tell us how much he liked it. He was not aware that we were considering removing it. He told us when it bloomed and leafed out in spring, and when it defoliated in autumn. He really watched the tree intently. As he left, we realized that we could not cut it down.” Landon was only a few years old at the time, so, at a minimum, intently observed this important tree for 20% of his lifetime.
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The storm was bad. I hope there wasn’t much real property destruction, just messes to clean up.
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It was mostly mess for us. The mudslides were mostly mess also, since they did not damage the road that they slid onto. The sinkhole might have been the worst or our damage. It was much worse elsewhere.
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