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'We cannot get out. The end comes. Drums, drums in the deep. They are coming.'

10.15.2005

Dinosaur Trees of Northern Minnesota. Pic by Zinnel.

At 12:34 PM, Anonymous said…

are these pines from the "lost forty"?
At 2:51 PM, Mason said…

Sure are!
At 10:50 PM, Anonymous said…

I visited the "lost forty" in September. The trees were ok, but having seen redwoods in California, made the visit a little dissappointing. The real bummer was that the parcel of land is not square! Who would have guessed this? An incorrectly surveyed piece of land of 40 acres and it's not square?! I had expectations here! I had planned to drive along a gravel road and look up to see a geometrically perfect stand of trees set against a shorter landscape. Nope. The parcel of land is as irregularly shaped as you could draw. Also, all of the trees in this stand are not 300-400 years old. Just as mother nature designed, some fall and new begin to grow. I just hadn't counted on mother nature to be so "natural"...I had more of a roadside attraction feel in mind. The world's largest ball of twine, now that didn't dissappoint.