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Thursday, September 13, 2012

The End of An Era for an Iconic Tree at Lumina

For pretty much ever, the huge white pine has reigned over the waterfront at next door Lumina Resort.

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.

Pavey Tree came in to safely remove the tree.  It's not a job you'd want to tackle on your own. We could tell you stories...










Thank you to Phil Pavey for providing us with these pictures of his crew at work.



  Looking at the size of the men gives a poignant scale to the size of the tree.









We know that many Lake of Bays residents read our Blog, and that just as many will be familiar with Lumina, one of the iconic resorts of the region, and our closest neighbour.  This year the resort celebrated its 91st season.





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.


















2 comments:

  1. That is a massive tree.

    In 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.

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  2. 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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