oak

The oak trees saved the blue house on East Calaveras Street.

I offered my loneliness and heartbreak to the live oaks and sycamores, refuse they could make into something useful the same way they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Here on the golf course, a group gathers under an oak tree to escape the sun.

And plein-air painters filled their canvases with the dramatic silhouettes of the California live oak.

A massive oak tree — one that he said is regularly the subject of complaints that it should be cut down, owing to its size — had survived the fire.