Trees as Timelines

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I was recently out West where I saw this:

Ponderosa Pine Gazebo

Closer inspection revealed that  this structure sheltered a large chunk of tree trunk.

Ponderosa Pine

This was once the largest Ponderosa Pine tree.

The Stats

There are many of these tree-trunk-as-timelinse around the country, usually with the same historical milestones  on it.

The Timeline

There is the “Wow, that’s old” factor that first strikes when you look at these timelines, but my eye invariable heads to the bark of the trunk, and how this tree once stood vertically and reached for sky  and exhaled its waste product (oxygen) to our benefit, and now it’s a dead curiosity.

Bark

The hope is that seeing this make people experience the majesty of trees, but honestly, it depresses me as much as this photo…

The Fieldbrook Stump, left to our children.
The Fieldbrook Stump, left to our children.

What goes through your mind when you see these?

 

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