Redwood Trunk

Continuing with yesterday's redwood theme, here is the trunk of a live redwood. The oldest of these giants live up to 2,000 years and many are in the 600-800 year range--just middle-aged at that point. No wonder the trunks are so wrinkled with age! The twisted, convoluted ridges and valleys of the trunk say, "I'm a survivor--and I'm not done yet!"

This particular tree--in the Lady Bird Johnson grove--is large enough that it was certainly there when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, there when Columbus bumped into America, and probably there when King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215. True, it's been anchored to its spot in northern California that whole time, but when you touch the trunk of this tree, you're sure it has seen it all.

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