There is a large meadow (and former music venue) near my home that is being paved over to make room for a shopping center. Acres and acres are being scraped clean of the natural vegetation. I was delighted today to see this tree being moved. It is a huge live oak that is most likely a hundred years or more old. The band of fabric around the bottom is about five feet high.
I have no idea where the tree's journey will end but I hope it thrives there. There were two smaller trees next to it that are probably part of its hammock. I hope the movers come back for them.
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How gratifying that they are trying to save the tree. I, too, hope they return for its buddies.
When I lived on a 450-acre farm in NC, I knew every inch of that land as if it were my own, which it wasn't.
After I had been there for 7 years, the owners decided to clearcut the entire property to sell the lumber so they wouldn't have to work. I cried as the bulldozers completely destroyed the landscape I loved so much. I had tagged several trees with signs that they were to be left, but the crew saw through my ruse and took them, too.
That was when I knew it was time to leave.
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