Trees of Summer

I was just looking through my recent photos and noticed how many pictures of trees there were, so here's a whole post with recent tree pictures.

 Dawn through the trees.

 One of the groves in the small bit of neighboring property we just acquired. Now I don't have to worry about them getting cut down.

The foreground tree is a volunteer oak we're going to get taken out, it's way too big, plus the wisteria is swarming up it and taking it over.

 Sunset through the redwood grove on the other side of our house.

 Hot summer stressed redwoods. They normally look like this at the end of October before the rains start.

 It was 116F one day in our town, we were tied with Death Valley for hottest in the country. We had several weeks in a row where it was over 100F every day. Very unusual, and during the non-rainy months, the redwoods are used to getting moisture from the fog, which there hasn't been much of lately.

 Second-story view of our front yard palm. It's almost too big now.

 Memories of when it was just a little ol' houseplant, seriously it was.

Maybe it wants to be this tall, like these palms I saw in Santa Cruz? Yikes.