"When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf"

[Birdland]

They don't call my neighborhood "Thousand Oaks" for nothing

But I read that the California Live Oak was suffering from some kind of horrible blight. I can just hear all those Oak Ents now: "When we're all blighted and dead, then you'll be sorry!"

Sorry, Mark, I can pull a weed with the best of them, but killing a tree just seems like such a BIG DEAL. Like Treeacide. Although I do have a pesky peach tree that I have thought bad thoughts about.