Posts Tagged ‘big trees’
Wintervale Big Trees 12 and 13
[John and Cyndie are supposed to be home by now from vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike. I decided to give myself one extra day before getting back to live posts because my original tree survey left out two beauties that I added later and I was on a roll when scheduling the big trees before we left.]
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The twelfth tree is an oak located outside the sunroom windows. It stands in the middle of our septic system drain field. It seems unperturbed by that fact.
Measuring a circumference of 134 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 200 years old.
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The thirteenth tree is the oak beside the driveway up by the house where delivery trucks have snapped low-hanging branches and stick debris constantly litters the pavement.
Measuring a circumference of 137 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 200 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 11
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The eleventh tree is an oak located between the kennel and the woodshed. My brother, Elliott climbed into this tree with ropes to trim some branches for me many years ago. That meant an awful lot to me. What a gift.
This tree is the second largest of the survey, just one inch bigger than its neighbor, the tenth tree by the kennel, and six inches smaller in circumference than the Mother Tree.
Measuring a circumference of 139 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 200 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 10
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The tenth tree is an oak located up the hill from the mother tree. It is beside the kennel where Delilah used to look up into it and bark after squirrels she knew must be up there, whether they were, or not. That drove me nuts.
Measuring a circumference of 138 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 200 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 9
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The ninth tree brings us back to the oaks again. It also brings us back to the crown jewel tree I’ve already made a reference to in an earlier post. It is the tree we are calling the Mother Tree. It is deserving of another look. A year ago this tree dropped so many acorns we started referring to the trail that passes beneath it as “ball bearing alley.”
Measuring a circumference of 145 inches, this mother oak is calculated to be approximately 220 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 8
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The eighth tree is also a maple. It is located just beyond the bird-pecked tree, near what we call the “Middle Trail.” There isn’t anything particularly distinguishing about this tree but its girth caught my eye and earned it a spot in the survey. Deservedly so. I left the vine in place for the photo to show what we need to constantly address. I uprooted it and pulled it off the bark immediately after taking the picture.
“Be gone with you, $*@%# vine!”
Measuring a circumference of 105 inches, this maple is calculated to be approximately 150 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 7
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The seventh tree is another maple. From behind the labyrinth, I walked to the trail that leaves the backyard at the bottom of the hill near the red raspberry garden. It may not be long for this world as the reference I gave the tree is “bird pecked.” It looks like a variety of woodland creatures are hollowing residences out of the body of this noble gem, both up high and down low.
Measuring a circumference of 95 inches, this maple is calculated to be approximately 135 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 6
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The sixth tree is an oak located in the woods behind the labyrinth. It lost a large limb a few years back and the debris from that still hasn’t been fully processed and cleared from beneath it. I fear the cleanup is one of the things on the “todo” list that may never truly get done to completion.
Measuring a circumference of 125 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 180 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 5
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The fifth tree is an oak that is not that far from the first two I measured but on the other side of the trail, closer toward the house. It is referenced as “leaner” because the trunk is growing in a distinct lean away from the trail.
Measuring a circumference of 122 inches, this oak is calculated to be approximately 175 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 4
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The fourth tree I measured is a stone’s throw from the chicken manure spot, toward the middle of this section of woods, away from the trails.
It is also a maple tree. I referenced it as “swing arm” because of a massive lower limb that stretches out and absolutely begs to have a swing hung from it. I would need to clear out a bunch of small trees in the vicinity to make a swing viable. Maybe someday?
Measuring a circumference of 117 inches, this maple calculates to approximately 167 years old.
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Wintervale Big Trees 3
[John and Cyndie are currently on vacation in Iceland with our friends, Barb & Mike Wilkus. While we are gone, I am featuring the results of the big tree survey I did in August on our property.]
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The third tree I measured is just down the trail a bit from the first two and I referenced it in my notes as “chicken compost” because we used to dump the chicken manure beside it.
It is another maple tree. There are five maples in total in my survey.
Measuring a circumference of 101 inches, this maple calculates to approximately 145 years old.
I wonder what it was like in Iceland when this tree first sprouted from the ground…
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