Well, it wasn't a real road trip. I was just going up town, maybe to get gas or go to Wal-Mart for something.
Anyway, one of the big house-building companies was clearing all the timber out of a few acres just a little ways from here. They have been going absolutely crazy around here clearing land and throwing up housing areas. Thing is, people are buying them as fast or faster than they can build them (which, by the way doesn't take very long). Once the concrete dries they have a house framed up in a day!!
So, back to the road trip. As I came around a turn, I saw a tree that had been left -- a single tree in the middle of huge farm field. At first it looked like a mistake of nature. But as I went past it to the other side, I looked in the rear view mirror and it looked like something out of a Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings or some other science fiction movie. Check it out:
Pretty cool, huh. Maybe those land clearing guys actually had an eye for a far-out piece of modern art. Nice wings. Nice beak. Deep-seated eyes. Looks like its walking across the field.
The more I look at it, the more I wonder what history that tree has lived through, how many times it might have been struck by lightning, what droughts or tornadoes or fires it might have survived. Who was it who said "that tree is outstanding in its field." I know -- bad, huh!
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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. (Douglas Hyde)
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