Tomorrow is a Long Time

[michaelboy]

This Red Oak tree is growing on the hillside just above our property on the lake. It is over 18ft in circumference, so it's diameter is nearly 6ft, at 71.6". Using a standard red oak tree aging estimation formula, where the tree growth factor for this species is usually taken at 6.7 (Although this factor could be lower in this area), the tree could be as old as 71.6 x 6.7=480 years old. Even utilizing the lowest growth factor of 4, this tree would be at least 285 years old. I certainly have no expertise in such estimation, but I can say this oak is one of Ohio's oldest and has been around for more than a minute.

Makes me wonder. if it was ever lonely or ever thought that...

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[keplers_angels]

The lives and life-spans of trees (and other plants) always seem... always make me feel somber... but maybe somber is too short-spanned a feeling. The zimmerman sappling ozzing the most bittersweet sap --may it taste the same sweet and scratching youth in 200 years....?