Hacker News Reader

California has many extraordinarily beautiful large trees besides redwoods. Madrone, bay laurel, and tanoak come to mind.

Still, I find something exquisite in the eastern hardwoods, beech in particular. The turning of color and dropping all the leaves is really gorgeous.

Yep. And Juniper, too. And Sequoia, which I don't believe are technically redwoods if we want to split hairs. And a bunch of cool oaks.

It took me a longer time than I care to admit that it’s pronounced “tan-oak” and not “tan-o-ak”