Tree before it was cut, next to an 8 x 10 shed. |
Sorry to see you go, old friend. |
The view after the tree was cut. |
Compare the stump to the size of the guys. |
My husband said it was about 3 feet across the stump. The tree wasn't hollow, either. |
Tree before it was cut, next to an 8 x 10 shed. |
Sorry to see you go, old friend. |
The view after the tree was cut. |
Compare the stump to the size of the guys. |
My husband said it was about 3 feet across the stump. The tree wasn't hollow, either. |
It came from the East, with wild howls and thunder
a snow like a blizzard along the Blue Ridge Mountain row
A squall with malice as trees fell asunder
unable to bear the weight of high winds and snow.
(Yesterday, January 2, it was 70 degrees.)
We lost more trees this week. The beetle that killed the ash trees took out a few more in the back yard. They were close to the house, so we had them removed.
The view before the tree massacre began. |
My new view. |
During high winds the other night, a dead red oak tree fell over in the back yard.
I heard it crack and crash about 6:15 a.m.
We have lost a lot of trees in the last 18 months. The ash borer took out all of the ash trees and several oaks died. I think the ash borer also hit the oak trees, but maybe it was something else. Maybe they were simply older trees and it was their time.
I tend to think of trees as living forever . . . if we'd only leave them alone. But of course they do not, though they may live for thousands of years. Several trees are known to live over 4,000 years, and a grove of trees in Utah is thought to have been alive for 14,000 years. (This is called a clonal colony and is not an individual tree, but a large living organism.)
The oldest known oak tree in the US is thought to be 850 years old or more.
Mine, I think, succumbed to a disease or bugs.
Losing trees makes me sad.