CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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Great tree. Trees are earth's friends.

Way back in the day we use to be able to climb it. I was about 6 years old the first time I ever saw it. I made my way up one of those large limbs to where it met the trunk of the tree. I didn't go any higher for two reasons. First I couldn't reach anything to grab, second, I was scared. Now a days I think most parents would freak out about letting their kids of that age climb a tree like that, but that was also back in the day when I went half way across the country on the back dash of my dad's Buick. It's a beautiful tree, the oldest living live oak east of the Mississippi. So they say.

Charleston is a place known for history, food, water, and especially Trees. That's why i was pretty happy to find out what the challenge was this month. This is the one thing I can't fail at! So, I took the CB down to visit the Angel Oak







it's a fairly ancient tree, as the link i provided suggests. One of the oldest in North America in fact. if you've ever been impressed by anything in nature, you can't help but feel like you're in kind of a holy place when you visit this tree. This thing was old when the USA was born. It's really marvelous.





There's also a grainy video of a walkthrough around the tree, to give you some idea of scale.

It still amazes me that [western] society got through the 60's and 70's.

It still amazes me that [western] society got through the 60's and 70's.
That's funny and oh so true. How did we manage it

Sometimes, when me and my friends get together for coffee, we muse about the old days and the things we did as kids that would be a horror today.