Hungry Trees
May 15, 2007 at 10:34 pm 8 comments
At Caldwell Fields, I found more trees absorbing an obstacle. This time they were eating wires.
Three wires almost look like they were threaded through the tree.
Close shot of an absorbed wire
As a refresher, the other hungry trees were at Bottom Creek Gorge and on the John’s Creek Mountain Trail:
Hungry tree at Bottom Creek Gorge
Hungry tree on John’s Creek Mountain Trail
Now that I think about it, Granary Cemetary in Boston had a hungry tree too:
Trees in Boston have a taste for tombstones
Yeah…remind me to never get in the way of a tree.
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Entry filed under: Caldwell Fields, Hiking, trees.
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Vicky | July 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Sweet– nice domain name to boot! 🙂
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