In the ten years since I took this photo the trail has been abandoned and the tree has rotted away.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    I walked along an empty path
    I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
    Is this the Earth, beneath my feet?
    Sat by the river and it made me complete.

    Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?
    I’m getting old and I need something to rely on

    And if you have a minute, why don’t we go
    Talk about it somewhere only we know?
    This could be the end of everything
    So why don’t we go somewhere only we know?

  • bluGill
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    68 months ago

    I just finished chainsaw training so I can help maintain trails by removing hazards like that. There is a reason we call tes over trails like that ‘widow makers’. If you don’t help maintain good things we lose them.

  • TacoButtPlug
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    58 months ago

    I’m just glad you didn’t say it’s gone because it’s been turned into apartments or a shopping arena…

  • @hemmes
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    58 months ago

    Are the surrounding trees and foliage still there?

      • @ClockworkOtter
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        27 months ago

        Almost reflex downvoted, but it’s not your fault.

      • @hemmes
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        28 months ago

        Ah, bummer

    • It's A Faaaahhkeah!
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      -18 months ago

      Nope, I cleared the whole thing so I could build a concrete pad to practise my dance moves.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    38 months ago

    This looks SO much like the conservation land that was behind my childhood back yard in Massachusetts

  • @[email protected]
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    28 months ago

    They renamed the town on my passport.

    “Where were ya born?”

    “I can’t say it right”

    “Write it here”

    “I can’t remember the special letters.”

  • Maeve
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    28 months ago

    That’s gorgeous. Would love to see an impressionist painting of it.