Medium Tree, Big Mess
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Oops for the record, a falling tree does make a sound -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 14 mm — 1/250 sec, f/7.1, ISO 640 — map & image datanearby photos
Oops
for the record, a falling tree does make a sound

Never a dull moment around here. Yesterday was nonstop hubbub with Cousin Titi's visit and her daddy's birthday. They left for home this morning, so perhaps to fill in the quiet, a 70' (21 meter) tree decided to fall for no apparent reason. It's a sumac, which Wikipedia says reaches a maximum height of less than half that, so perhaps that's why it fell.

Anthony for Scale Anthony is standing near the remaining 6' of trunk, at the far left -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm — 1/250 sec, f/7.1, ISO 900 — map & image datanearby photos
Anthony for Scale
Anthony is standing near the remaining 6' of trunk, at the far left
Big Mess -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 62 mm — 1/640 sec, f/2.8, ISO 800 — map & image datanearby photos
Big Mess

It just seemed to have been the tree's time. There was no storm, no wind... nothing special. Just a loud crack and, well, the sound of a tree falling, taking out a couple of other smaller trees with it along the way.

Collateral Damage limb from a too-near Oak that took a four-foot long strip of tree with it -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 20 mm — 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 360 — map & image datanearby photos
Collateral Damage
limb from a too-near Oak that took a four-foot long strip of tree with it
Sandbox is under there somewhere -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 @ 21 mm — 1/400 sec, f/2.8, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Sandbox
is under there somewhere

It fell right over the sandbox (seen here), taking out the redbud that had been shading the sandbox. Luckily no one was playing at the time.

Another photo that appeared on a blog post last year...

Playing In Front Of The Tree Last Year -- Copyright 2009 Jeffrey Friedl
Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1/200 sec, f/3.5, ISO 200 — map & image datanearby photos
Playing In Front Of The Tree Last Year

Living around here, my folks are well versed in cleaning up after these things. I blogged about clearing a fallen tree a few years ago, and I'm sure I will again later this week.

The remnants of the 25"-diameter trunk were quite dynamic, with thick layers of multicolored wood....

Thick -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000 — map & image datanearby photos
Thick
Dynamic -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 2000 — map & image datanearby photos
Dynamic
Internal Layers still pretty darn thick -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 900 — map & image datanearby photos
Internal Layers
still pretty darn thick
Multicolored -- Rootstown, OH, USA -- Copyright 2010 Jeffrey Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/125 sec, f/11, ISO 6400 — map & image datanearby photos
Multicolored

Some large areas in the trunk had a whitish fungus or something, so that's probably why it fell, but no idea why it chose a calm, sunny day to do it.

Continued here...


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