December 6, 2007
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The before and after of my trees
The old Lady in all of her glory, and from all of her wonderful angles.
Do you see that big branch to the right? Its about 2.5 feet around.
Look at all the lovely knobs and twists. And the moss. As we were stacking its firewood today some of the moss was four inches or more thick!
And now the death of the Old Lady;
She didn’t die gracefully. She just shattered all over the place! And yeah that’s how wide she was points at the little Kaylin next the the big log.
And her root-wad. WE now have a eight foot deep 6 foot across hole in the ground. I’m sorry the picture’s blurry. I have to go out tomorrow and get a better one I guess it was a bit too dark when I was taking it.
My dad says when they seperate the butt from the root the root wad “should” fall back in the hole. I hope so, cause that’s my lawn. LOL If it does…the maple will regrow. It won’t be big and wide, but it will be pretty and green and busy right where it always was. Maples are impossible to die out here. They just keep coming back up from what’s left of them.
The top of the eagle tree. It wasn’t necessarily a beautiful tree. In fact it was already dead. But it was a monster, and because it was dead the eagles thought it made a great vista to watch for salmon.
The HUMONGOUS butt of the tree–which as Rob reminded me a moment ago is still there. It didn’t uproot, it just cracked. I’ll show you in a bit.
And now for the spectacular death of the old man.
If you notice in that picture there’s a young tree trying to grow out of its root system as well. I’m’ not sure if it will make it as evergreens are much more picky. And it lost its top…but one could hope. Its kinda fun to see the way nature compensates.
This tree for all of its being so big wasn’t that old. Spruce grows phenomenally fast in this country. But it was still the biggest evergreen we had on the property. So we lost both of the granddaddys in one fell swoop.
See why? It was absolutely and totally rotten. Just DEAD!
Firewood any one?????
So those were the deaths in my family. There are lots of other trees around. And if it had been any other two I wouldn’t have been that upset. But both of the granddaddy trees in one windstorm. A bit much if you ask me.
Comments (4)
Your beautiful trees! Are you guys going to flood every year? I guess the price of living on the river. Sounds like you had a really long week. We are having great weather but still don’t have a loan for the house. We may find out tommorow. We may not. All I really want for christmas this year is my home. That would be cause for a BIG celebration.
Great “dedication” blog.
glad to see you are okay – sad about the trees tho – i’m glad no one was hurt when the trees fell – i always hate it when you have to cut down an old tree or one gets destroyed by a storm – i love the magesty of grand, old trees – but life goes on and the trees will make excellent fire wood and new trees will grow in their place.
Glad there wasn’t things damaged by the trees falling.