We sympathize with anyone who mourns the loss of a tree, especially one that has seen generations go by and provided joy to those that have noticed the trees existence. We have oaks here in the remains of Milner Town that have competed with surrounding growth that includes a dozen species; maple, beech, “tulip,” ash, hickory, cedar, pine, some black walnuts nearly a hundred feet tall. Many stand firm with gaping holes at the bottom but are still good for a decade or two. But like the oak at Cedar Hill those elder oaks eventually drop rotted limbs that weigh enough to kill a human. The paths through our woods are often littered after a thunderstorm with brute dead limbs several inches in diameter and you wonder if they ever fall when there is someone close enough to hear them thump the ground. A tornado, some years ago snapped 27 huge pines as it roared through our woods but turned at the last second enough to our home. The oaks survived. There is an oak at our former home in Michigan I climbed as a boy. From the top that moved with the wind I could see the whole town. The tree is still there and growing but Cedar Hill has lost a friend.
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Since Obama has come into power, we have seen many moonbats come out of the forest.. Just curious, but I wonder how many of these very same wack jobs who cry over a tree being cut down, think it’s perfectly OK to tear an unborn child from the womb.But it’s perfectly OK for those same hippies to chop down a weed plant and smoke it.
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