Lone Oak No More!

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our friends Windsor and Sal, the Lone Oak now has a baby brother. May we introduce Sycamore Sam! Sal tended to Sam for many years in their San Francisco yard, but he just grew too big for the pot and they kindly thought of us when it came time for adoption.

He is going to be a big boy -- he could be well over 80 feet tall -- and with such a wide eventually root spread even on our 2+ acres it took a bit of time to find the best location for him (the septic mound kept getting in the way of several of our initial choices since you can't have roots any where near it). He found his forever home in the southwest quadrant, and will shade what we hope will someday be our guesthouse. We'll be able to see him from the main rooms of both the little house and the not-so-big house when they are built as well.

Right now it looks like he's living in maximum security -- his roots are surrounded by a gopher cage,  his trunk wrapped by a wire fence to protect him from the deer, and four strong poles with stretchy chords to keep him upright in the wind --  but in a year or two he should be standing all on his own. Long live Sam!