To: Savant who wrote (450) | 2/28/2023 2:09:26 AM | From: sense | | | Its funny how stuff like that connects to memory so well...
I remember as a kid, about six... so, sixty years ago... having an older couple my folks knew bring us a basket of apples they'd grown... big, yellow skinned... I thought "Golden Delicious"... but, boy were they good... and, no, not a grocery store Golden Delicious... but a well and carefully grown Grimes... not at all the same thing...
Why should I remember an apple I ate sixty years ago... as clearly as I do ? |
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To: Savant who wrote (448) | 5/8/2023 6:49:32 PM | From: sense | | | Stopped by a small vineyard / winery last week. Was standing outside chatting with the owner/winemaker when I stopped mid-sentence without thinking and uttered a "holy crap"...
We were standing in the garden next to the house... underneath a large old tree... and I suddenly became aware that it was a cherry.
It was obviously a tree with some risks associated with it... large limbs leaning out over the house, clearly looking like they're going to fall on the house... sometime... likely soon. They said... "yeah, but, we can't bring ourselves to take it down".
The large "limbs" on the tree were joined around and rose straight from the base, each bigger than you could reach around... and then spread outwards. But, they weren't "limbs" exactly... rather than the remnant joined circle of now very mature sports that had long ago formed up in a ring around the core of the original tree... which was still there as a long dead core still poking up from inside the ring. The "limbs" were probably 60 years old... the visible core, poking out 10 feet above ground, was much larger around, and was probably already at least that old before the sports started. I'd be surprised if it wasn't 150 years old... but it could be much older.
The geometry of it is questionable... and each "limb" leans away from the dead core... but, each is healthy enough otherwise. It was in full flower, and, they say, makes a large crop of tart fruit each year... all of which goes to the birds... given no one wants to climb two stories up into a weak tree to try to net it...
I'll do some digging and see what I can learn about the history of the site... and maybe find a probable limit on its age that way...
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To: sense who wrote (452) | 5/8/2023 7:50:16 PM | From: Savant | | | Wonder if they could use cables to support the ...limbs/trunks. That's a big cherry tree...mine are about 15 ft.
Once knew a neighbor that had a two story Queen Ann cherry tree...yellow/blush red fruit...yum
Could find a fruit picking drone, to harvest, maybe |
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To: Savant who wrote (453) | 5/8/2023 10:22:25 PM | From: sense | | | They have structured a sort of basket design of heavy duty chains between limbs to try to contain the risks...
Had friends in Sacramento with an own rooted Queen Ann... as tall as the Eucalyptus in the neighborhood...
The cherries were great... a lot of them... but... impossible to pick them.
You didn't want to stand under it when the wind picked up... |
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