Australian skyscrapers in the SoCal desert.

[davidwyby]

Examples of bad/ broken wood. This tree was full of it. Big time limb dropper. Stringybark? Smells like stinky ginger.

 

[davidwyby]

I stopped and looked at these a while back. Thought I had posted pics. Decided not to bother the landowner about taking them down. Maybe I should have. Looks like one fell across the driveway and had to be moved. I left my card today.

 

[Cobleskill]

What is growing in the background?

 

[davidwyby]

What is growing in the background?

Probably alfalfa

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Cobleskill]

Takes a lot of water.

 

[Cobleskill]

Corn behind the alfalfa?

 

[davidwyby]

I don’t think so…maybe some kind of big hay

Around 800 square miles of 40a fields…I don’t pay much attention. It’s like trees in the PNW 😆

 

[davidwyby]

Takes a lot of water.

We use up almost all of what’s left of the Colorado River once it gets here

 

[Kaveman]

We use up almost all of what’s left of the Colorado River once it gets here

Give it back! That water belongs to Arizona! Dry up and starve! Blah blah blah. Insert asinine politics here...

Fuckin commiefornians!

 

[davidwyby]

The cities want water to grow grass while we’re over here trying to grow their food.

 

[SeanKroll]

Let them graze!

 

[davidwyby]

So this is interesting. My son and I were looking at the big spar I recently dropped, it's dry rotted in the center...apparently all the way up. Tree was laying on the trailer with the butt into the breeze from the west, and cool air was coming out the top. The wood fibers must act as an evap cooler with whatever slight bit of moisture is still in there.