Ancient Trees – Free Workshop

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sorry to hear about Buff Tony.

 

For the best I'm sure.

 

Get working on a great big phat photo-montage of the two of you out & about in the woods.

 

 

 

 

 

can't see the shots Tony, you may need to retry

 

 

 

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Noticed the images had failed, havent the heart to go again!

 

everything seems a little trivial at the moment, times a healer though:biggrin:

[Albedo]

I wondered where you were lately Tony.

 

I feel for ya mate. I hope you can take some consalation from doing the right thing. That feeling you will have at the moment will get less painfull with time.

 

Best regards, Paul (I take animals seriously, I like them more than people)

[Stephen Blair]

sad news tony, chin up. i have 3 dogs myself. for the best but still a very hard and brave decision. i cant find an appropriate wee face at the side for the situation, so i wont put one up..

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I wondered where you were lately Tony.

 

I feel for ya mate. I hope you can take some consalation from doing the right thing. That feeling you will have at the moment will get less painfull with time.

 

Best regards, Paul (I take animals seriously, I like them more than people)

 

There is not one human I would have put before Buff, not even me, when I was potless he ate before me everytime.

 

The most important choices we make are often the hardest, He has a good spot at the bottom of the garden where the sun always shines under the Birch.

 

No more derailing, maybe i will put a tribute up in another thread as David suggested.

[John Hancock]

Feeling for your loss Tony. Know all to well what its like, sorry dude.

[Canal Navvy]

Sorry to hear about your hound,I hope that i didn't bang on about my lamented terrier on the walk down to the pollards.

 

While walking my old boys daughter on her sons land yesterday i saw a pollard that looks really rather good.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Hey you guys, stop apologising!

 

and stop derailing!

 

Something else worth discussing is thus....

 

David lonsdales comment that whilst Shigos work was indeed great, he had a very negative perspective on decay and the role fungi have in the cycle of lignified life forms.

 

let the comments begin, oh i almost forgot, didnt i say similar a while ago!

[David Humphries]

Something else worth discussing is thus....

 

David lonsdales comment that whilst Shigos work was indeed great, he had a very negative perspective on decay and the role fungi have in the cycle of lignified life forms.

 

let the comments begin, oh i almost forgot, didnt i say similar a while ago!

 

 

 

Yay ! Hamas back.

 

That's more like it Tony.

 

 

 

Lonsdale makes a great point, Shigo, gawd rest his blinkered soul, was not as inclusive as the world of Arb needs him to be.

 

Lets not forget to keep on keepin on !

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

LOL, hey you guys, back by dubb demand!

[sean freeman]

I have found that even the most enlightened American Arborists I know look blank faced when you mention Rayner and Boddy.

 

It is a real problem, from my very very limited exposure to Alex Shigo, he struck me as a man who recognised the dangers of raising any individual or any one theory to the level of a deity with commandments. Whilst I am certain the fame that accompanied his published works was more than welcome he did at least state that when you stop learning you are dead, and that CODIT is a MODEL...to help interpret biological and physical alterations in wood tissues following wounding.

 

I tend to think he would be more upset than most at the way in which quoting his works is oft used to obstruct the normal and essential extension of ideas and development of concepts within our profession.

 

I had a similar conversation with Francis Schwarze when he was over here with David, Ted, Jill and Andrew.

 

We really are only just beginning to get a glimpse of the depth of complex associations and relations between trees and the masses of other organisms that surround them....to use a Shigo quote...we often mistake the artifact for the whole system, the model for reality.