reynardo: (TARO2)
reynardo ([personal profile] reynardo) wrote2006-08-24 10:51 am

The Tree That Feeds - is GONE!

I just read it on [livejournal.com profile] sclerotic_rings' journal.

[livejournal.com profile] lederhosen says it's better to think that something burrowing up from below pushed it out...

In 2002, on our honeymoon, [livejournal.com profile] ambitious_wench took us to see H. P. Lovecraft's grave, and the amazing tree that grew from it. This tree looked exactly what you would expect from one that had grown from the man who gave us Cthulhu. She took [livejournal.com profile] silverblue, [livejournal.com profile] harliquinn and [livejournal.com profile] jazzmasterson there in 2003 as well (and those four sweet, innocent creatures were asked to leave - I can't think why...)



(My photo, but I'd submitted to Worth 1000, which is why the watermark on it)

A description of what's there (and how I found out) can be read here
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[identity profile] qamar.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
What a wonderful story and what a tree! Wow and thanks.

[identity profile] notasquirrel.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
*sniffle* i gott mie piktur takun inn thet tre...

[identity profile] scascot.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps it took a vacation?

[identity profile] mr-figgy.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
I'll never see it, outside of photography.

[identity profile] ambitious-wench.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, oh, gods, this hurts! All my pics of it are gone, too, on my old hard drive.

This came at a bad time for me.

Edie

[identity profile] silmaril.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I am very sorry---to steal Tolkien's words: For it was very beautiful, and had stood for so long.

[identity profile] sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com 2006-08-24 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
And the real shame is that if I'd known about it coming down, I would have taken cuttings to clone it a few times. After all, considering the interest in Wollemi pines, wouldn't you love to have your very own cloned Lovecraft Beech?