I was glad to find it because this whole section of woods has been logged recently. Also adding to heaviness of this trip was the fact that the whole area is showing signs of the Beech disease, making this potentially one of the last years well experience this beautiful peak leaf beech grove.

It’s hard to know exactly how old this tree is but it is fair to say that it likely witnessed this landscape before the civil war when the region was among the oldest and fiercest of the American Slavocracy, on through to the modern era, when woodland trails were abandoned for car infrastructure.

Awesome Marc. It is an incredible tune, I never get tired of it. 50 years today !

play it at my funeral around the field bonfire (as is the way of my people)
youtu.be/mqcTdwj_AQY?...

Yes I’ve been a fan for a while! That peppers pow wow record is really so good.

I heard Pharaoh Sanders found him his sax!

Looking like the same here for early next week.

Yeah I heard he was doing well! He was a couple years younger than me.

...Deputy Shawn Lindsay found the suspect a short time later and got into an altercation with him. He broke free after striking a deputy and ran into the woods screaming and cursing."

...About 30 minutes later police were notified that a CSX train had struck a naked man...The conductor told police that the trains were traveling about 9 mph...After sounding the horn to warn the man, he walked directly toward the oncoming train...He ran off before deputies arrived...

"A young Stafford man was arrested last night in connection with an incident during which he was running around naked and got hit by a slow-moving train, police said...Kennedy said police were called at 7:30 a.m. Saturday by a woman who’d seen a young man running completely naked...

Good call on the slaw! Going to do a big batch of that when we get some cabbage in!