Tree Magestic
Monrovia has been having unseasonably good weather lately…but it’s not unexpected, and I believe January is one of our prettiest months. My day was only marred by the sound of an industrial wood chipper across the street, and men yelling and scrambling around on the branches of a beautiful pine tree.
It took them a better part of a day to take off every single branch, and now it stands like a sentinel on death row, awaiting sentence in the dark. It always makes me sad to see beautiful tall trees get chopped down. I have seen studies that show that trees do know when they are being attacked and respond chemically to try to protect themselves (against insect invasions).
With all of our oven-like summer heat, I can’t understand why someone would chop down a tree that provides wonderful canopy and shade. I guess you could call me a tree hugger.
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nice blog. but you forgot images of pomona now that would top the cake….
Ah…this is completely normal weather for us. Rain then warmth. Its the classic Mediterranean climate. We are in a La Nina which tips the scales towards more warm days than wet ones. It was last like this in 2006, I remember it well as I was in remodel and the weather was perfect no rain from right after Christmas until March.
Of course we get the El Nino cycles too which bring terrific amounts of rain like 2005 and fewer of the warm days.
I’ll take the warm days.
The city of Pasadena was planning on chopping down 40 large shade trees on Colorado Blvd. and planned to replace them with palm trees that provide little or no shade during the hot summer months.
What is scary, Monrovia has a city manager who thinks Pasadena is a great place and that over building, high density housing (condos) and increasing vehicle traffic is the rave of the future.
Scott Ochoa is on record saying “We are becoming another Pasadena.”
Doesn’t our city manager know becoming another Pasadena is a bad thing ?
What’s next, parking meters on Myrtle and parking permits to park in front of your own home ?
You Monrovians have precious little time to save your town! Wake the heck up before it is too late! don’t break what doesn’t need fixing………….