Isn't it funny how, one can sometimes drive by something for many years and not really notice it. I have been going through this gate for over 50 years and I never really noticed this bunch of trees, that all sprung from some old stumps that I guess must have been here for probably all of my life. I don't know if it was my dad or someone else that cut these original trees down, but there are at least two stumps in the middle of these trees, and I just really noticed it today, when I was closing the gate. How does a man go through a gate for most of his life and not notice something like this? I should have taken better pictures.
Nice looking tree, and I'm guilty of doing that too. Seeing the same thing for years but not taking notice or not seeing the significance/beauty in it. When I grow peppers I'll top them off sometimes, forcing the plant to send up 2 new stalks. Full size trees do the same thing only on a different time scale. In a lot of ways they're more resilient than people.
It is easy to miss some things. To this day I sometimes drive down a familiar road and see a home that I've passed for years but don't ever remember seeing it before.
That is cool. Funny how i drove by black locust my whole life and never jnew of its existance. Back in the 1970's we had a butternut tree (the nuts were very sticky in their husks) on the edge of the yard. It blew down in a hurricane/tropical storm and dad cut it up for firewood. The stump was always resprouting saplings and dad always cut them back even many years later. What species Lastmohecken ? Looks like catalpa? They are very prolific.
It may be Catalpa, as there are some right in that area. I will know for sure when the leaves come out.
