Swimming back from the Island, it is one of our 'target markers'. Anyone out on the water on Lake of Bays knows this tree.
Sadly, this summer was its last. The pine succumbed, we're not sure just why.
Thank you to Phil Pavey for providing us with these pictures of his crew at work.
That tree was there for all of them. It was there before that, in the years when Lumina was vacant, and the Bondi cows made free of the barns...It was there long before that as well. It made it through two World Wars, the invention of the airplane, moon landings and medical miracles. Through winters and summers and generations of families with roots to this Lake almost as deep as those of the pine.
It leaves a gap, in every sense.
That is a massive tree.
ReplyDeleteIn my neighborhood, in a park alongside the Rideau River, stood a massive tree- either maple or oak- that they finally cut down a year ago, after it had reached the end of the line. They thought it was a couple hundred years old.
I remember, after my mom died, our neighbour bemoaning the fact that a storm took down a large pine. She seemed so sad about the tree, but looking at the bigger picture, I told her that the big trees fall to make room for the small, young ones to grow and spread their branches.
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