Trees

catefrances

pandora wrote:

catefrances wrote:

amazing, so old and sturdy, stood for so long

believe it or not its an introduced species to sydney. so not as old as you think. but still majestic.

pandora

catefrances wrote:

pandora wrote:

catefrances wrote:

amazing, so old and sturdy, stood for so long

believe it or not its an introduced species to sydney. so not as old as you think. but still majestic.

Whomever introduced that needs a big hug and thank you kindly! It is breathtaking!

DangDang

catefrances wrote:

That's St. Stephen's graveyard? Where?

Looks like Key West, by the lighthouse museum

justam

DangDang, cate lives a long way away from Key West. (!)
She's lives closer to Sydney Australia.

catefrances

DangDang wrote:

catefrances wrote:

That's St. Stephen's graveyard? Where?

Looks like Key West, by the lighthouse museum

st stephens newtown. an inner suburb of sydney.

catefrances

justam

catefrances wrote:

:ugeek:

Fifthelement

catefrances

DangDang

BhagavadGita

DangDang wrote:

Smooth and strong.

BhagavadGita

this continues to dumbfound me. What IS the story behind this bike and it's owner, a child.

pandora

BhagavadGita wrote:

this continues to dumbfound me. What IS the story behind this bike and it's owner, a child.

wow that is weird :wtf:

BhagavadGita

I may be repeating myself here, but that tree stands on Vashon Island in Washington. It's only a few hundred feet from the road.

Maybe about 50 years ago a child laid the bike against the tree and for some reason never came back. Apparently the tree, feeling lonely for the child, decided over the years to hug the bike so hard that it grew up with the tree. It's about 10 feet off the ground now. Handle bars finally coming off, pedal, long ago taken by a tourist with a penchant for defacing the incredible. It's really something to see and ponder. I take visitors there all the time.

Here is another view...

BhagavadGita

This grand weeping willow stood proud and tall until 2004 until a wind storm off Lake Washington blew it over. To everyone's amazment, the tree continued to grow and is a favorite playspot for my dog and my son. I find it such a blessing when something can be so resilient.

DangDang

BhagavadGita wrote:

I may be repeating myself here, but that tree stands on Vashon Island in Washington. It's only a few hundred feet from the road.

Maybe about 50 years ago a child laid the bike against the tree and for some reason never came back. Apparently the tree, feeling lonely for the child, decided over the years to hug the bike so hard that it grew up with the tree. It's about 10 feet off the ground now. Handle bars finally coming off, pedal, long ago taken by a tourist with a penchant for defacing the incredible. It's really something to see and ponder. I take visitors there all the time.

Here is another view...

I just read elsewhere that the bike was originally CHAINED to the tree....which makes the tree's growth around the bike & chain much more conceivable than a mere LAYING of the bike against the tree (by which the tree's growth would merely knock the bike over). Just wanted to post that point. I'm sure folklore added the loneliness and the hug...and theres certainly nothing wrong with that!

BhagavadGita

Well, I did not know that. Know one I know on Vashon ever mentioned it.

Feel silly now.. :oops: .thanks for clearing up the mystery.

I liked my story a bit better though.

Also apologize for the bad photo color, it was kina a blue morning.

pandora

BhagavadGita wrote:

This grand weeping willow stood proud and tall until 2004 until a wind storm off Lake Washington blew it over. To everyone's amazment, the tree continued to grow and is a favorite playspot for my dog and my son. I find it such a blessing when something can be so resilient.

this reminds me of home, Wisconsin, the Door Peninsula. I tried to find pics of the weathered trees on Rock Island off the coast there and couldn't but here is the Apostle Islands, great memories

notice the trees roots off the right of the pic, anchoring the tree. Life finds a way

justam

I went to an old battlefield park this Sunday and saw some very old trees-->

catefrances

aah a.m. you make me want to visit florida more than ever.