Folks, here’s a blog where I go off on a tangent about
trees.
I love them.
From the gnarliest oak to the weepiest of willows; they
fascinate me. It is more than their appearance that I have come to appreciate
though. Consider the following:
A Bristlecone Pine, given the name Methuselah, is roughly
4,765 years old. Just take that in for a moment. 4,765. That. Is. Pretty. Darn.
Old. The things that tree must have lived through…
Even Peoria’s own Burr Oak off of High Street is a most
impressive being. My understanding is that it was alive during the American Revolutionary War and during
Peoria’s first settlement.
And don’t get me started on the largest living organism, the
General Sherman Tree; which is a massive, majestic Sequoia tree residing in
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. In terms of sheer volume, it is the
largest tree in the world. “According to the National Park Service,
the General Sherman Tree is 274.9 feet tall with a circumference at the ground
of 102.6 feet.” Incredible.
These trees, and countless others, have seen so much of
history…of life.
It’s humbling to me. Imagine if they could see, hear, and
feel, as we do… for that length of time. Oh, the stories they could tell.
This week’s blog brought to you by the letter T and by my
train of thought. Thanks for making it through my tangent. Have a nice day. ;)
You should look it up the trees in Japan also!! It calls Jōmon Sugi, and I think it's the oldest one in Japan and over 4000 years.
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