For those of you that have visited us, you may remember that our backyard is FULL of huge trees. All of the trees provide a very nice canopy for the yard and you get a bit of that "ahhh" feel when you are out there and the sun is shining through the tree limbs. Not to mention, the huge trees are GREAT for hanging up Kristina's hammock.
Of all of the trees in the backyard, our favorite is the GIANT COTTONWOOD. It is huge and the biggest tree back there. It always amazed us how big it was. Apparently, we weren't in the minority either; several people had seen it and said, "Wow, that's the biggest cottonwood I have ever seen -- still standing!".
Here's a shot of it on a sunny day...please note that Jared had to stand WAY back to get the entire tree in the picture.
Here's a close-up of the trunk...this "knot" here is big enough for Kristina to stand on...
And here's a tape measure wrapped around the base of the tree. The circumference of the base of the tree is 17 FEET; which means that the diameter of the base of the tree is 5.4 FEET. See, we aren't joking when we say it is a GIANT tree.
So, you may be wondering why we are writing a post on a tree, well, all good things must come to an end. The tree is rotting (which you can see in the picture below this paragraph). We had been trying to put this off as long as we could, but it has gotten to the point that we have had several arborists tell us that it should come down; otherwise, it might come down in a storm on our house. That being said, the tree will be cut down this week. Ugh! This isn't something that we want to do, but we also don't want a tree in our house.
Stay tuned for more...
