funny but sad

[katster]

While stumbling around geocaching yesterday, I found this in the park I was searching:

I open the floor to y’all.

Originally published at retstak.org. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[lirazel.livejournal.com]

In the 1890s one of my favorite writers, Marietta Holley (who wrote under the name "Josiah Allen's Wife", wrote up a trip to Saratoga NY. A feature of it was a slice of a redwood tree as large as a small barn, being exhibited for the benefit of summer visitors coming to "take the waters".

So yes. Sad, funny.

[tangaroa.livejournal.com]

I've never gone "aww" about a tree before.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

What men cannot equal, they must destroy? Is that the sustaining aspect of our species? [sorry, depressed today]

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

Looks like a fine specimen of the Continental Stump Maple. Give that sucker another two hundred years, and it may attain the stately height of ... one foot :>

[bassbone.livejournal.com]

There may be a good reason for felling it. Perhaps a blight or somesuch. Sometimes trees die of natural causes, too.