Aaltarboy
Aaltarboy
Belfast, Maine, USA
Jun 2017
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Very big aging white pine tree.....

starting to lean threateningly toward the Ponderosa Mansion here. 40 or so meters tall. Took it down in pieces, with much regret, as I normally spend my time hugging the big girls. (Hugging big girls, now there's a thought) Like a sniper, have had this old girl in the crosshairs for some time. She served us well, as a location for various antennas, a tire swing when the twins were younger, for shade, and just for her beauty. Will also help this winter in the wood stove, after she's in little pieces and has a chance to dry out. But the writing was on the wall. Even though she still had a few large greening branches up top in the sky, and again this season was producing those wierd other worldly Gymnosperm "ersatz flowers", that become pine cones, most of the lower ones were drying and falling, also a threat to wires. (and to passers by). But how sad was the process. After taking down the top ten feet or so, she began to exude that wonderful smelling sticky pine sap, methinks in panic, as part of some ancient evolved protective strategy---traps for invaiding borring beetles, bandages after wind or lightning damage? Is it dumm to tear up not a little over all this? Aa.
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ashlander
ashlander●In God's Hands, Oregon USA
Jun 8, 2017●3,804 Comments
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My sympathy...as a child spent many hours playing under the boughs..for you,
Tissues and The Giving Tree ( Aho Mitakuye Oyasin-we are all related)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dx6io_FqW8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Elegsabiff
Elegsabiff●Motril-ish, Andalusia Spain
Jun 8, 2017●358 Blogs●9,358 Comments
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I like that she will finish her days in the wood stove, not just hauled away to end her life as toilet paper in a wood processing mill. Hard to tell what a tree would have wanted, but I think it is what she would have chosen.

Oh dear Red may be tearing up a little too.
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Crazyheart38
Crazyheart38●Amman, Jordan
Jun 8, 2017●191 Blogs●5,807 Comments
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she seems like a great tree...sigh
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1to1to1
1to1to1●nbattleford, Saskatchewan Canada
Jun 8, 2017●11 Blogs●1,778 Comments
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Hello wave In the last few yrs we ve lost a few of the big pines in the neighborhood. When I step outside ,the landscape has changed, and theres a feeling of something missing. Something of which , I say to myself ,I ll give it some thought later, but never do. As we age,I figure we get more attached to those people and things that were, at one time more permanent figures in our life. No harm in shedding a tear over one of those missing features in our life. I know I ve done the same.
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Aaltarboy
AaltarboyOP●Belfast, Maine USA
Jun 8, 2017●167 Blogs●468 Comments
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Thanks, all. She was terrific. Trying to plant a few seeds, away from the house. Aa.
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ooby_dooby
ooby_dooby●Ashland, Virginia USA
Jun 8, 2017●60 Blogs●728 Comments
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Well, in the last year I had 2 huge trees fall on their own. Lucky for me they didn't hit the house cause I would be homeless right now if either one of them did. The first one was a Yellow Poplar about 3 feet in dia. It fell across my back yard and crushed my chicken pen. Lucky it only grazed the Hen house. I had sold my flock about a year earlier after wondering WTH was I doing with chickens. The second tree to fall was a Pig Nut Hickory as big as the Poplar but about twice as heavy. That one fell toward the house but missed it as well. I now have enough firewood to last me at least 5 years.
Make sure that Pine i very dry before even thinking of throwing it in the stove, but I'm sure you know that.
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