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| The storm damage on/about October 03,2014 |
Over the years, there have been several trees at White Rock Lake that I have been drawn to photograph. Last fall, I did a post about several of those old trees that had hundreds of years of character and mystique. Some of you may remember the ones named, The Three Sisters, or The Weeping Willow.
Going back to 2014, around October 03, or earlier by a couple of days or three, a storm hit White Rock and toppled several trees and took down large branches on others. Sadly, it was that storm that destroyed the beautiful shape of the willow as it hung over the bank near the Fisher Road parking area off W. Lawther Drive. Tree doctors attended the tree with their chain saws and when everything was cleaned up, the old tree stood forever wounded. When the spring of 2015 came, the tree was making a weak comeback. This spring, it was holding it's own, but if you really paid attention to this living creation, one could tell that it had suffered dearly the past two seasons and not likely to make it to another spring.
Today, I made a point to visit the tree and photograph it one last time. It was a sad parting to something that had been so beautiful on the shores and I know of none other around the 9-mile lake that held the status of this tree. It's an old friend that will be coming down to the hum of chain saws and wood chippers. A warrior of the lake has fallen and this tree, especially, will be missed forever.
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| Today, September 12,2016. The tree appears to be dead, not going dormant for the winter. |
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| The surgery after the storm in 2014 |
