… can you count the rings?

While we were hiking on Haida Gwaii, we saw where a dead tree had fallen across the trail and the part blocking the path had been removed.

We tried counting the rings to see if we could get a sense of its age; as we got closer to the middle, the rings were very close together and it was difficult to tell exactly.

We were able to determine that at a minimum, there were 150 rings, so this tree was standing when Alexander Mackenzie was prime minister of Canada and Queen Victoria was still occupying the throne and would continue to do so for another 27 years. My grandparents hadn’t been born and my great-grandparents were teenagers! Such realisations always remind me to enjoy my life; after all, we’re not here for very long.

Comments are closed on this post because we have company coming. Happy August.