One last look at Mt. Shasta as we leave the Redding area.
Lunch stop in Eureka. Me and the kids in front of the funny fisherman. Dave wandered the marina to look for a specific boat of the same make and model as ours--a real beautiful sample of customwork. Didn't find it. The kids did get to see a sea lion and talk to the fisherman who feeds him a bite or two every day.
We camped one night in the State Park, surrounded by the cool breath of these awe-inspiring giants. Did you know trees breathe? They breathe in carbon dioxide, and breathe out oxygen and moisture, cooling the air beneath them by as much as 10 degrees. We didn't feel wind in the park; we felt tree breath, moving currents filtered down as the cool air descended. I'm sure there was wind above and outside, but it didn't reach us.
Another cool redwood fact: their root systems are interlinked, similar to elm or trembling aspen (but individual trees, like elms, not a genetically-identical forest stand grown from offshoots, as aspens do). They hold each other to the earth.
Many of the trees we saw had flood marks on them from a devastating flood of the Eel River in 1964. Others had burn scars, and had even had their hearts eaten out by fire. They continue living.
The trees spend their first hundred years growing upward, and their next couple of thousand growing thicker and thicker.
My sister-in-law saw a Roman wall in London from around 0 AD. Some of these trees are from the same era.
Jesus walked the earth when some of these trees began to grow.
These trees were here when Rome burned.
These trees were here before the Chinese discovered gunpowder.
Selah. Think about it. God's works are great.
Another cool redwood fact: their root systems are interlinked, similar to elm or trembling aspen (but individual trees, like elms, not a genetically-identical forest stand grown from offshoots, as aspens do). They hold each other to the earth.
Many of the trees we saw had flood marks on them from a devastating flood of the Eel River in 1964. Others had burn scars, and had even had their hearts eaten out by fire. They continue living.
The trees spend their first hundred years growing upward, and their next couple of thousand growing thicker and thicker.
My sister-in-law saw a Roman wall in London from around 0 AD. Some of these trees are from the same era.
Jesus walked the earth when some of these trees began to grow.
These trees were here when Rome burned.
These trees were here before the Chinese discovered gunpowder.
Selah. Think about it. God's works are great.
1 comments:
Wow, beautiful and amazing! I would love to go see them first hand. I love what you said about the tree's breathing.
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