Shady Solar

     What a difference a few months ban bring in the amount of Sunlight one area receives! During the Summer my back yard is almost constantly from Sunrise to Sunset being baked in the solar light. Now it is almost always in the shade from my neighbors' trees.
     The east side of my house faces the street and I have one huge oak at the Southeast corner which all by itself is making placement of the solar spotlights in the front yard tricky. My fruit trees that I planted; one each apple, pear, Meyer lemon and olive are small enough still not to affect the Sunlight scheme at all. In the back yard my neighbors to the South, North and West all have large oaks and the Southwest corner has pines I'd estimate at being no less than 100' tall. So during the Winter I'll be hard pressed to find enough hours of Sunlight to charge the batteries of my solar powered lights in the back yard. Once we swing into Spring I expect the situation to change dramatically and I'll have plenty of Sunlight I'll try a few times to place the lights where they'll have at least some chance of charging but I believe my best hope will be for some of the neighbors' trees to come down.
     Meanwhile, I'll do the best I can with what solar energy I do get in regards to placing the lights. Perhaps when the oaks lose their leaves I'll get better results.
   
     Only time will tell.