You know what? I get kind of pissed off when people get all emotional about the giant redwoods. They are so awestruck. I shouldn't talk as I would be absolutely bowled over if I saw the TITANS in California. But mainly, these are people seeing ones like this, a few hundred years old. Big, yes, really big, but still young.
OK, even so I am moved by this tree (who says they are lonely). Maybe it's tree jealousy. I want to see trees with trunks you can drive a bus through. But at the same time, it seems disrespectful. A hawthorn is small but is still amazing. And oaks and beeches, old poplars and the "once they were there" elms and the "soon to be gone" ashes. All wonderful. And birches and hornbeams and alders and willows and rowans. All of them.
Anyway, this tree. I am a little worried about them as Forestry Research says they may have a bug or fungus. There's some branch die back. I took pictures and sent them off. The tree is always welcoming but has little to say, apart from being lonely. They did offer me two crosses though.
Crosses are rather fitting as this tree is at the ruined church... though the crosses are not alighned like a Christian one.
The little oak looks well.
And I think someone tidied the area around the spring.
Someone else was recently buried here. A nice place to be food for worms.
Yes, that little oak does look well. So, people (or someone) are still being buried there?