Contact Me and an oogli tree.

Oh, dear. Now I find out that my Contact Me tab on the top hasn’t been working for a while. For some reason, Yahoo mail, owned by ATT, has decided not only to give me repulsive ads on each page of my mail program, usually of women with their skin falling off, or peeling off, can’t tell which from the corner of my eye, but has also been blocking email from certain phps, which WordPress uses everywhere. Including my Contact Me page.

So if you have tried to write to me and didn’t get a response (and I reply to everyone), please do try again.  Sorry about that, kids. * Contact page fixed now!

An oogli tree in Silver Lake with suckers.

Here is an oogli tree on a very expensive street in the hills of Silver Lake. The owner obviously takes good care of her home, and loves her little front yard garden, but figured she’d save a little money by having the “gardener” or some body, who obviously isn’t licensed, trim her tree. And now she has an oogli tree, particularly offensive under lamplight.

Poor tree, all knobbly and shapeless, when we know shape matters so very much in this city. The tangled hair balls look like nests, but I think there’s only one nest, and even that might be the cutter’s mistake!

Just a few weeks ago I talked with a helpful LADWP tree trimmer, who said he was a Tree Surgeon:

…he was kind enough to take the time to show me how DWP trims more effectively than Davey Tree Service, by cutting exactly at the “v” crotch. This trains the tree to grow away from the power lines, whereas cutting higher up the limb, causes ugly suckers, those branches that grow straight up from the cut and makes the limb even heavier. (note: could be grounds for an oogli tree.)

I think this is the perfect example of what he was talking about, and this tree certainly sucks.