Tree

Nice thick fog to wake up to this morning.  Birds have been generally mia in the usual haunts: a few mallards, a couple of coots, that's about it.  The swallows have left for the season, at least the ones near Lake Washington.

The remainder of the Sequoia was cut down to the ground on Monday.  The resulting edge of bark becoming soft and fur-like on the cut; a crack running across the center.  Someone had mentioned to me earlier that the crack went down to the ground, but about 30 feet of snag remained after the initial work, everyone seemed to think it would be left as wildlife habitat.  Turns out it was too heavy for the equipment to do any more work (1200 lbs for the cut sections) so they had to bring in more sturdy machinery.  Someone else mentioned that the tree was planted by Edmund Meany (I knew that part) in 1902, that it was part of a seed exchange program of some sort.  I believe it was the final tree left that he had planted.  There are more Sequoias.

Pictures to follow.