Barry, Awesome pictures of awesome trees! I love that last one. I have also found that churches ( old ones ) and cemeteries are often good places to find big and often old trees.
http://www.nativetreesociety.org/fieldtrips/north_carolina/calvary_church/calvary_episcopal_church.htm James P. On Jan 3, 12:47 am, Barry Caselli <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > Today I was off from the cranberry farm yet again. Since December 24 or so > I've been dealing with having a bad cold (which is almost better now), and > having water in the basement, which is where I live, plus not working for > various reasons. But I'm taking advantage, and doing some exploration, > walking and photography. > Today I started at Weymouth and did an update video to the extreme high water > video I did there last Sunday, the 27th. I then drove all the way up to Mt. > Holly, which is an estimated 15 miles further north and west from the > cranberry farm. I used a lot of gas getting there. > My main reason for going to Mt. Holly was to photograph a whole mess of > churches I had missed last time I was there, because they were on a street > that I had not walked on. > So anyway, I ended up walking past the Friends meeting house again, and > noticed that the big buttonwoods I had seen last time were in full sun this > time. So I got good pictures of them. This was when I realized how huge they > were! So it ocurred to me, why not measure them! I hadn't measured a tree in > a while. So I found my tape and measured them. The larger one, which is the > one with the unusual shape, has a CBH of 16'5", and the smaller one 13'3". > The larger one is the largest buttonwood I've ever measured, though not the > largest I've ever seen. > Friends (Quaker) cemeteries are great places to find large trees such as > buttonwoods and white oaks. To refresh your memory, a buttonwood tree is an > eastern sycamore, which I'm sure you can tell by seeing the pictures. > This Friends meeting house was built in 1775 and the burial ground may be > older than that. So the trees likely date from that era, at least I would > think so. > Barry > > > DSC07141.JPG > 436KViewDownload > > DSC07142.JPG > 445KViewDownload > > DSC07144.JPG > 401KViewDownload > > DSC07145.JPG > 364KViewDownload -- 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]
