A tree company took down a massive Cottonwood in my parent’s neighborhood about a week ago. It had been dying for years. The neighborhood was built around the big trees like this in the 60’s. There are some huge Maple and Oak trees there too. Nowadays, they just bulldoze everything before they build. This tree was probably several hundred years old. I took my kids down the hill to see my folks today. I had to stop and look at the stump. I used to climb to the top of that tree when I was a kid. It was probably 100+ feet tall. It kind of made me sad to see it gone. But my son played with his tractors on the stump for close to an hour. Made me smile. It was almost 6 feet in diameter Thought my fellow tree nerds might think this was cool.
That’s neat that your son spent some time playing on that stump. Those cotton woods get really big, we have some big ones around here. There are/were a couple of monsters on the neighbors farm when I was a kid but haven’t been back there to see if they are still standing. Maybe I need to do some investigating. A lot of the cottonwoods around here get logged for pallet material.
Awesome picture Cash I can’t come up with anything clever to say about it other than it’s deeply symbolic of several different themes, and in a word, powerful.
Yeah, man. They get freaking massive. I always think about what those ancient trees would say if they could talk.
Thanks, bro. I was thinking about that too. When I was 11 years old, watching fireworks in the top of that tree - I could never have pictured my son standing on the stump.
Too Cool!! I have a giant cookie of one of the cottonwoods from bolded sentence in the article below, tall enough to be used to sit on or an outdoor coffee table. It barely fit in our old F250 bed. Camp Collins (Fort Collins Military Reservation): The Old Fort Site of Fort Collins, Colorado Introduction Text-to-speech Audio Camp Collins, also known as the Fort Collins Military Reservation, was the precursor establishment and eventual birthplace of the city of Fort Collins, Colorado. Camp Collins was a United States Army outpost established in 1862 along the Overland Trail to protect travelers from Native American attacks. These Native American conflicts, involving Native Nations on the Colorado Eastern Plains, eventually became known as the Colorado War. The initial location of the camp rested near Laporte along the Cache la Poudre River and suffered a massive flood in 1864 from the river’s rising water levels. The fort was relocated about 4 miles downstream on the Poudre, which was used until 1866 and soon after formed the founding of the current city of Fort Collins, Colorado, officially established in 1873. Although a lot of the original fort buildings have been taken down, the site played a major role in the history of the Overland Trail, the relations between Great Plains Natives, and the development of the Fort Collins area. For those who are familiar it was by the entrance to Watson Lake. It ended up at my husbands work, want it back lol.
Those AC condenser plugging tree's are all over the place around SE Wisconsin. That and silver maples. Crazy how hollow they can be.
That is cool. AN old memory with a new one. Sad to see old big trees cut down but when their time is up or too dangerous they have to go.
