Start early in July, because by ten the sand in the Santa Clara River wash is throwing the heat straight back at you. The cottonwoods and willows down in that wash grow fast and break easy, and up in the Bouquet Canyon yards the same story plays out as a limb hung over a garage. Trimming ahead of the hot months takes the sail out of a crown; pruning in the cool months sets the shape the tree grows into. Tree removal gets worked out over the paseos and block walls of Valencia, lowered in loads the gate will actually take. After a night of wind, storm damage cleanup ends with the concrete blown clean and the last of it loaded.