this is understandable. It was old (?) or diseased? but it fell with the weight of it's wetness during Winter Rain. Easy to see that all its interior was already transitioning by decomposition. Wind broke it.
but then....this. These Oaks have multiple trunks rising from the same Earth Body. This is how Oaks are here. With this one, two of the trunks remain and appear totally viable. Two had broken off at the base of Earth.
they appear to be healthy. The wood is solid and hard. But they broke off. We stand. Over and over, there, asking aloud the same questions over and over, going over and over what we "know", about why trees fall and we are left Wondering. Maybe that's how it will always be. Jenny wanted to clear the path. They had fallen on our best path from B down to A....across the Goat Path there. She and her man worked. quietly. She has feelings about all this. Her love for this Hill is more than i might ever know. It's fluid tho, i am finding out. She is Fluid, i am finding out. We learn even tho we don't know what we are learning. Earth is Love
