Nice tree. What are the trees to the left of the abbey in the photo? Pines? Bald Cypresses? Thanks, Barry
--- On Mon, 9/21/09, lawrence tucei jr <[email protected]> wrote: From: lawrence tucei jr <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Live Oak Project- Louisiana Oaks 1 To: "Entstrees" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 1:59 PM #yiv327143631 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv327143631 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} ENTS, In search of large Live Oak trees, I did some research last week and found several more trees to go visit. After much reading and locating all the new prospects. I had a friend come over Saturday and away we went. Our first stop was at the Abbot Paul Schaueble Oak, growing behind St. Joseph's Abbey north of Covington, La. On November 13, 1957, at midnight a powerful storm went through St. Joseph's Abbey, blowing out many of the windows in the church and strewing the pipes in the massive pipe organ tnto the walls like daggers. The mid section of the Oak was wiped out and a sizable split incurred. FR. John LeBlanc, one of the Benedictine monks, refused to cut the tree. Instead he secured it with bolts and heavy braces and it still thrives today, depicting the true spirit of resiliency of the Live Oak. Measurement are as follows, CBH-22' 10", Spread-156' x 147', and Height-63'. A beautiful tree with a fantastic crown. The first photo shows the trunk, the second the crown and the third is of the beautiful Abby. http://clcabbey.com/general-information.html Lawrence Tucei Jr. Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it now. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
