And so it IS ~ The wages of time ... Beauty Of Planet Earth ...

 

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Location : Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California, USA.

The General Sherman Tree is the world's largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall, and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up. Sixty feet above the base, the Sherman Tree is 17.5 feet (5.3 m) in diameter.

It is estimated to be around  2,300 to 2,700 years old.

And so it IS ~ The wages of time ...

Deep rooted and held

Your branches like arms reach out

From the heart and depths of earth

Strong, deliberate, confident

Be your supernal held stance

Yours is a story of suns that rise, suns that set

Of the light of day, the dark of night

Of journeys of the moon calling to waters divine

Of the wages and spoils, trials of BEING and time.

Rose Marie Raccioppi

APOGEE Poet

Poet Laureate

Orangetown, New York

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