Every time I go out, I see changes. Some are welcome, old buildings being refurbished, a garden planted where there were weeds. Some are sad and none more than the loss of the centuries-old oak in front of the disused church building in Walnut.
It was the victim of a spring storm, blown over and uprooted. Plans are being made to use the timber for a memorial and/or keepsake items that could be sold to raise funds to repair the old church, now owned by a local charity.
I've taken many a picture of the elegant old building over the years.
And the majestic oak was always a welcome feature, no matter what season.
Its winter aspect was my favorite.
There are plans to plant another tree--now we'll just have to wait a few hundred years...
4 comments:
Your pics are a-oak-ay
So sad that it's fallen over with winds. What a lovely big old tree it was!
Losing an ancient tree is always sad, but at least no one was hurt and nothing was damaged when it fell. We had to have an old maple in our front yard removed because it had started dying -- and it would have crushed our roof if it had fallen. I still miss it.
John could make beautiful things from that old oak's wood.
The death of a big tree is always sad. Our neighbor has a huge maple in her yard. It's older than her house for sure. It's lost big branches a couple of times but so far so good.
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