american chestnut

chestnut, originally uploaded by staarkidd.

Kathy is a bit of a natualist detective. She noticed a mound in her woods and thought about excavating it to see what caused it. as time passed by and began examining the area more carefully, she deducted that the mound had once been a giant wild american chestnut tree. A long time ago, these trees grew to enormous and majestic sizes. Then, after the white man had settled in, the trees were attacked with a strange blight.
Kathy believes that the mound was from a giant american chestnut trees that got sick and fell over. all around the path of the trees grave, tiny american chestnuts have begun to spring up. they are beautifl to see, but at a certain young age, they all get the rusty disease and die before they are ever able to produce chestnuts. the trees are now nearly extinct. it was a sad tale and sad to look at the young beautiful trees and know their certain death is just around the corner.