Archive for December 4th, 2013
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Life & Compassion From Children
“During the development of a tree, the lower limbs often die, but may persist for a time, sometimes years. Subsequent layers of growth of the attaching stem are no longer intimately joined with the dead limb, but are grown around it. Hence, dead branches produce knots which are not attached, and likely to drop out after the tree has been sawn into boards.” (Knots in Wood)
It rained hard the last few days. The warnings were coming of a small freshet and then the weather turning cold across the Northern tier. The rivers rose and now they will drop and clear. The damage from drastic rises in the rivers, even if not at flood stages, leaves behind telltale signs of levels once the waters drop below ‘normal’ levels.
Here the graph shows the two day spike as the river rose about 9 feet and is now dropping.
