UkeleleEric on Nostr: My wife says it was obviously dying for a long while, she can remember a school trip ...

My wife says it was obviously dying for a long while, she can remember a school trip when you could not only walk right up to it and climb it, and get inside the hollow trunk, but before they put in any of the many branch supports that held up the branches. Oaks that last beyond 1000 years are rare, and, at 1200, despite the myths, this one is too young for Robin Hood to have known it. As it rots in situ, it will continue to be part of the forest.