tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69255956225310449702024-02-07T01:53:27.283-08:00Dianne's Big TreeDanny's Research Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09384259856105465851noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6925595622531044970.post-75404693431365612802012-01-24T10:29:00.000-08:002012-01-24T17:42:38.334-08:00Dianne's Big White Oak TreeMy cousin Dianne McMahon took me to an old white oak tree out in Pittsylvania with a beatuful view of White Oak Mountain. Her mother Elsie Hardy Durham lived near the tree in the late 1940 after her marriage in 1947. Dianne and I measured the circumferance with a tape line. It was 15.2 feet. Divided by 3.14, we came up with a diameter of 4.84 feet.<br /><br />This is a large and beautiful tree, but the Virginia state record for a white oak is 26 feet 0 inches for a tree in Brunswick County.<br /><br />The largest known white oak was in Maryland before the tree estimated to be 400 to 450 years old fell in 2002. The diameter was 31 feet 8 inches.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqIeJJ_R1kMrDU3BEku-duHOEdnhq3Qh7KVGsIx_c8d6UTXQuD5dovVH2y8201ZW2v0w4dkEwR7bmRfe0hM3-fDC9G53zmrDu_BGONUlrhk_eRguswsJ4_MGlh2nPgbRquwCdXeP45YM/s1600/Dianne+tree+close.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 288px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701270472518882418" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlqIeJJ_R1kMrDU3BEku-duHOEdnhq3Qh7KVGsIx_c8d6UTXQuD5dovVH2y8201ZW2v0w4dkEwR7bmRfe0hM3-fDC9G53zmrDu_BGONUlrhk_eRguswsJ4_MGlh2nPgbRquwCdXeP45YM/s400/Dianne+tree+close.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6meHIhlRVXyXkJadi0vpmZV-3kDeHhh5S8MDTpOghQdBiddDMWbB4WJCBACk6MYb_-7CjpHAc49TOGWPoVWsjCreOUozpkR90ngm0nBKeqW1se5GMFwaqgCkRcYt_tmWb9OMhMhN78RY/s1600/Dianne+tree+pines.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701270456523098770" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6meHIhlRVXyXkJadi0vpmZV-3kDeHhh5S8MDTpOghQdBiddDMWbB4WJCBACk6MYb_-7CjpHAc49TOGWPoVWsjCreOUozpkR90ngm0nBKeqW1se5GMFwaqgCkRcYt_tmWb9OMhMhN78RY/s400/Dianne+tree+pines.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs02oIGQlXwevVhOgbi5Q_4iV-_BYn9amwcG9s5upFmy33SP3y9Iimxo8y5qwZolOkWztKkUzRV_v3Dn71Emd6dFVJCJuZt0B01iRnFpREmUU-9Qz5HTYrWdv1hznCsVXfUyUNU_3VUg8/s1600/Dianne+tree.jpg"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhy9G4tJ4aj0LGBU4XVGLHDNYtR7FOrlelBfnSpu5E8XYc9nkHktl2RMzyPDJ9UXOnszjvGeNOaBAE3TlO1C-IJ18ZEU5cD-SQNsqI9FCHqoTxbjECFOFIG52uIlBdMnzKAoztf3PB8A/s1600/Dianne+tree+pines.jpg"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXWeUhTapda6LrGaCLOWPjqKWRhj4NZXMsWUJHBojxEy5OTYILTXJmzo45oefOBn2eXDTx6y32eu9ZP8D4MwCXOlDcP8QWUjI4RynGuvl3sQry1UpORQwJ80O0u-9Ff-WHRxVNb6Gm1k/s1600/Tree+blue+sky.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 284px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701270018773687634" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaXWeUhTapda6LrGaCLOWPjqKWRhj4NZXMsWUJHBojxEy5OTYILTXJmzo45oefOBn2eXDTx6y32eu9ZP8D4MwCXOlDcP8QWUjI4RynGuvl3sQry1UpORQwJ80O0u-9Ff-WHRxVNb6Gm1k/s400/Tree+blue+sky.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8QiHSdZ4J3OzS6lbxFbLmaWz3Y_ooViBjNTSWqZUQGTsKQQ-kBsSyBzMSxi1FG6dRtD006wTO5orOoi0y6DmSK507nIBiPwq9URrHKPtBNrKS6_xETOAC38ptZPSpH2Unkl2yuRBS0Q/s1600/Dianne+tree+barn.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701270001907060738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8QiHSdZ4J3OzS6lbxFbLmaWz3Y_ooViBjNTSWqZUQGTsKQQ-kBsSyBzMSxi1FG6dRtD006wTO5orOoi0y6DmSK507nIBiPwq9URrHKPtBNrKS6_xETOAC38ptZPSpH2Unkl2yuRBS0Q/s400/Dianne+tree+barn.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-7RABzpxL-NbBYivv4B6b64kjLfbHUmFx0auIA9CCTCLJATN07Hpo1M9Wev9p-f5xIIqAWLY-9OHQDhjF64wct-GUPNlcslBQMbMUm1Il0kcl7Slp4g61essczcZeq6n8JejcOZHhkg/s1600/Lake+across+road.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701269989120126994" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-7RABzpxL-NbBYivv4B6b64kjLfbHUmFx0auIA9CCTCLJATN07Hpo1M9Wev9p-f5xIIqAWLY-9OHQDhjF64wct-GUPNlcslBQMbMUm1Il0kcl7Slp4g61essczcZeq6n8JejcOZHhkg/s400/Lake+across+road.jpg" /></a> Lake across the road to the west.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcoSiUYSNrjnce4adDx_bLw8cRN4C6OGLqNNQlqIiFQOuczAafVk481sj6w99Z496z9Eg0GxfovnST31TMfu1HMF-f9mxirzLBnFZmWMotgBugiTXMqspUmz0gcuba03POVs0wRQl1D0/s1600/Cabin+across+road.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701271061806533106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcoSiUYSNrjnce4adDx_bLw8cRN4C6OGLqNNQlqIiFQOuczAafVk481sj6w99Z496z9Eg0GxfovnST31TMfu1HMF-f9mxirzLBnFZmWMotgBugiTXMqspUmz0gcuba03POVs0wRQl1D0/s400/Cabin+across+road.jpg" /></a> Old cabin far across the road from the giant tree.Danny's Research Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09384259856105465851noreply@blogger.com0