Gray day /maybe the Blue & Gray

[glass half fool]

Here is a picture of a giant White Oak tree the stands tall on a south facing slope .It reaches its long limbs skyward on a gray morning near the end of Jan. For me there is beauty in a leafless tree standing watch over the events of each day and those events remembered in history . During the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War Jeb Stuart and his men traveling through this area . Was this tree alive but just a small sapling at that time .Maybe but I can't be sure .But I would say this tree feed many squirrels ,raccoons and deer and sheltered many birds from the thun der storms of summer

 

[tamrock]

I like the leafless woods. Got out for a walk along the creek this last week, which is one of the few places that wooded areas grew naturally in the high plains of the rocky mountain front range. I planted a maple tree from a seed some time ago and now it's maybe 25 feet high. I got to wondering how old it was and I found some info on the web on how you can get a close estimate of the type of tree by measuring the diameter of the trunk at a certain height from the base. There's huge big diameter cottonwood trees around here I believe are as old as 100 years plus, I believe. Indeed there's something about big old trees. They're like living witnesses that keep secrets about things of the past.

 

[glass half fool]

Tamrock I agree 100% about the leafless woods I will try to measure that oak tree to get an idea how old it might be Thanks for the info

 

[A2coins]

Nice post I appreciate nature as well it's all in how we perceive things

 

[glass half fool]

So today I finally took a tape measure to the spot where tree is Measuring the circumference of the tree at chest height ; about 4.5 up from the base I came up with 10 feet 9 inches or 129 inches . The get the diameter you need to multiply that number by 3.14 which is 41.082802 . Now you multiply that number by the growth factor .Different trees have different growth factor numbers .A White Oak is 5 .Multiply 5 x 41.082802 which is 205.41 So according to one way of knowing how old a tree is this White Oak tree is about 200 years old It started growing about 1820 .For a fun winter time project measure different trees to get an idea how old they may be Remember the growth factor is not the same for all trees

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nature is beautiful in all seasons!