Yesterday’s post was about a memorial stone placed under an oak tree, here is a picture of the oak tree. The stone is being overtaken by the roots of the tree, when it was placed over 100 years ago wouldn’t have been nearly as big and now it dwarfs the house next to it. This tree is also a sign for me to be here and for new beginnings since the tree is dead. This might not be obvious since the tree itself doesn’t know it’s dead, there are leaves growing on the branches. When a tree gets cut down it will still grow new branches and leaves, it’s using the energy stored with in. Upon closer inspection of the tree, all of the big limbs have broken in the past, that’s how to know it’s secretly dead. Those broken limbs will continue to sprout new branches and leaves, then the weight will be too much for the unhealthy limb and break again, this process will continue until only the trunk stands or the whole thing falls. Thankfully it doesn’t look like the tree will and if it did it wouldn’t be towards the house. The falling branches are likely to knock out the power line connected to the house, looking at where the line connects it seems this has happened in the past and ripped off some exterior wood. We’ll deal with that as it happens. My neighbor shared some videos she had taken interviewing previous owners of our house where they had shown pictures of what it used to look like. Through my wife’s friend who is related to the woman on the memorial stone we were able to get a photo of her. It’s hard to believe there’s so much history here, that we could access it, and are stewards to it.
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