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Christmas Eve Day 2014
12/24/14 8:56:10 AM At this moment I took this horribly out-of-focus snapshot of a dead Loblolly Pine at the edge of my upper woods. Some of you might recall my comments over the last few years about this giant snag that is 80 feet tall and 50 feet from my house.
12/24/14 8:56:20 AM At this moment I took this shot of the snag now down to the ground. A crack and it's going, a slow-motion fall. The top half hits and bounces up and away to the left.
I've been looking out the window a lot this week, the ever constant rain, 1/2" to start the week, 4.2" yesterday, 2.5" overnight, another inch so far this morning. So, the dead pine started leaning a couple weeks ago, a degree or 2 off-center. This week it leaned more and this morning it had a crick in it, very obvious in the first photo which is why I went out.
Being right there in front of it, right then between rainstorms, I feel like my backyard has given me the most pleasant Yuletide gift.
Closeup of the remaining snag - maybe 15-20' high. I'll know more once it stops raining and I can measure it. I especially want to peek into all the woodpecker holes.
Standing on it and looking south which is away from my house.
The best part of it falling? It went that way!
That's all for this bucket of rain - see ya in the comments, either here or over there with matching mole!
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