That is one ancient tree. Isn´t it amazing how a tree can come to tilt like that under its own weight and from the winds and rain of centuries and keep right on living? Are those two poles/trunks shoring it up?
And I thought my 250 year old olive tree was old. :)
I've got a junior version of one of these in my front yard. I keep trying to kill it. It's leaning into my very narrow walkway. I've been chain sawing it and/or poisoning it for 10 years now. Every year it looks like it's giving up the ghost and by the end of summer it has recovered and is rejuvenating itself yet again. In a thousand years it will consume my little old house... but I won't be here to see it... so who cares?
One suggests that the trees predate the cemeteries in most cases, or at least the church's cemetery, and that the bodies followed given the tree's pre-Christian death/resurrection symbolism.
http://www.alsirat.com/symbols/plants.html "English cemeteries became yew-tree reserves because the branches were used to make bows. Once a year, parishioners would clip the churchyard yews so that other cemeteries might be filled with the victims of war."
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Now I want to go back and take a lot more pictures.
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1,000 years old, really? Can you imagine everything that's transpired around it between 1007-2007? Boggles the mind.
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I'm almost sorry it was a sunny day -- on a cloudy day you'd have been able to capture more detail in the trunk.
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It was a lovely day for walking around in a short-sleeved shirt, not so good for photographing this kind of a subject.
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And I thought my 250 year old olive tree was old.
:)
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Apart from that- and being hollow- it seems to be in rude health.
This is not at all surprising...
Thanks for the look at my future!
Re: This is not at all surprising...
Mother Nature always has the last word.
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http://www.mokshaproductions.com/Yggdrasil.htm
http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/yew.htm
One suggests that the trees predate the cemeteries in most cases, or at least the church's cemetery, and that the bodies followed given the tree's pre-Christian death/resurrection symbolism.
http://www.alsirat.com/symbols/plants.html
"English cemeteries became yew-tree reserves because the branches were used to make bows. Once a year, parishioners would clip the churchyard yews so that other cemeteries might be filled with the victims of war."
Lovely picture, by the by. :)
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But when an article says there's "no doubt" about some assertion while failing to offer hard evidence I see a warning flare go up.
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I wonder how old it is.
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But look how healthy its foliage is.