The fierce storms that battered the Bay Area gave arborist Michael Veneziano a lot of work converting toppled trees into elegant furniture.
The property owners reached out to him to salvage some of the tree. They want to make a table out of one of the slabs.
"Urban trees by their very nature are a little twisty, a little curvy, a little naughty. It's very exciting cutting open the log and then opening the slabs and seeing the grain," said Veneziano, who is something of a tree whisperer. "I can actually look at tree from the outside and I can tell if there's really interesting grain just by some of the characteristics of the bark," he said.
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