Cool old tree

This dead Black Spruce has been standing in the woods along one of our cabin trails for all of 30 years now and just won’t give in to the elements or Ma Nature. We were on a walk on the trail one afternoon and passed this old soldier again so I grabbed a picture.

More and more lichen have found home on this tree and each year we see more and more signs of decay yet this tree stands firm. Every spring I expect to see this tree fallen over either from the burden of snow or from high winds….just not this year. One has to admire at the strength Mother Nature imparts on her charges and this old tree is not the exception.

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Nature is amazing. I go past all these tree’s up here growing out of shear rock on wind blown points and wonder how they survive.

Totally agree, trees are amazing.

I visited the Fortingall Yew tree in Scotland once. This tree is thought by experts to be somewhere between 2000 and 3000 years old and is probably the oldest living tree in the British isles. Amazing to thin that this tree was likely full-grown at the birth of Christ.

Grouse