Ancient Cedar falls in Vancouver’s Stanley Park:“A red cedar tree believed to be almost 1,000 years old and reputedly the largest of its kind in the world uprooted and toppled from natural causes in Vancouver's Stanley Park….What struck me most about this news was the fact that this tree was almost 1000 years old. Imagine living for one… thousand… years. Incredible.
The top of the tree lies so deep in the forest it can't be seen….
"The first photographs we have of it in our archives are 1890…”
Before it fell, the mighty tree… was 13 metres around at the base and 40 metres tall. It became famous after it was featured in a 1978 National Geographic article, with scores of tourists coming to see it each day….”
So, what was happening a millennium ago? The Song Dynasty was ruling in China; Western Europe was in the midst of the Middle Ages; the Byzantine Empire was thriving in Eastern Europe; Viking Leif Ericcson landed in what is now called Newfoundland.
Imagine being witness to events spanning a 1000 years. If only trees could talk, eh? :o)
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