In Desperate times...My Silky saves the day!

[Lyn Ed]

just googled it and the large metal container in the middle of it was the church oil tank!

[silky fox]

It is certainly a tree you should see! It has the Sea behind it i seem to remember.

[breffni]

The sea is a fair few mile away

[silky fox]

It seemed to be on the horizon...anyhow....the story continueth:)

[silky fox]

As my thread creeps closer and closer to 100,000 views,it seems ironic that i am writing about my Favourite and most personal of any tree i have met. As i climbed down from its large green crown i noticed a dead hanging branch which i collected and brought home.i partially removed the bark which felt like it was welded on,far tougher than any bark of any Yew i had seen.i gave it one ruff sanding and that's all.no other treatment...i call it "The heart of Llangernyw" due to the heart shaped mark on it...who knows how old it is...when it first began to grow from the tree or when it tore out...wikipidea describes the tree as the second oldest "non clonal" living thing on the planet...it is my most favourite tree and maybe one day i should like my ashes scattered beneath it:rolleyes: But the stick is a gift from the tree to me and i find it beautiful...one charactetistic of it,is that it is incredibly heavy:confused: Long live the Llangernyw yew!

[Gerbutt]

That's a wicked stick you've got there, and some cracking photos you've taken of it too! It would be interesting as to how old it really is.......but also the mystery of how old it could be is just as nice. I was tempted when I saw the Yew at Darley Abbey to take a little cutting but I saw a little old lady struggling up the church path with a log so gave her a hand instead. I ended up helping her with loads of stuff and then helped setting up the harvest festival display with her haha!! It was quite a nice morning, saw a fantastic tree, got a guided tour of the church, learnt about its history and made an old friend...rock on:001_rolleyes: It's amazing when you think about it, that tree is 2000 years old, I though that was jolly old, your tree is 3000 years older!!!! What's the oldest one in the world I wonder!?!?

 

Nearly 100,000, that's brill - long live Silkys thread:thumbup:

[s.varty]

3000, 5000, its just numbers until you sit down and think about it. That tree was there when the romans were here, all the history we were taught at school and that tree was there . amazing that it will be there in another thousand years hopefully.

[silky fox]

Trees are the most awsome of things.

[Treemoose]

Nice stick silky with a great story

I wonder if you could get a part of it carved?

[silky fox]

I shall transform it..as well as keeping some of its original character...