Oregon really has many, many, and lots and lots of trees. But the trees on the Oregon Coast are not really pretty. Even Bakersfield has prettier trees, at least when they decorate the oil dereks. And Tehachapi has beautiful fir trees, and then there are the gorgeous trees in the redwood areas of NoCal.
Our trees, at least where I live are called Coastal Pines. They grow very tall, but they're built like telephone poles, not very thick at the base, and about the same diameter from the base to the top ( I remember my 2nd grade crush having a bod like that). Most of the branches are at the top of the tree, and the roots are shallow in the sandy soil.. So, when the wind blows, the tree bends, and bends. Some don't make it, as either the tree snaps off near the top, or the roots give way and the tree capsizes. It's pretty common all around here, and I have a few that scare me that are growing on my property. Some have all ready come down, which makes me do mounds of work chopping it all up.
So, today, I took a tree falling lesson from a friendly logger. Actually, they call it tree "felling" here. But anyway, we cut one down together. It was pretty awsum. So, on Sumday, I'll get up the nerve to fell a tree of my own. Well, maybe not.. Might just wait for mother nature to take her course.
Sure wish someone would visit me so that I could teach them this stuff in person.
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Say, wasn't her name Paula? I didn't know it was Paula Bunyun.
ReplyDeleteYou are some fella.