Marker trees.....
Trees come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors – but one of their few unifying characteristics is that they stand tall, reaching up toward the sky. If you look for long enough, though, you’ll eventually come across trees with crooked trunks and weird kinks. And if you find one of these, then you may have chanced upon a long-forgotten secret.
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When a severe ice storm came though the Atlanta Metro area in the late 90s, I had a three-trunk river birch tree that was quite young, but quite tall. The ice bent all three trunks to the ground but never broke them. When the weather warmed, the trees stood up again, but even decades later, the evidence of the ice storm was visible in all of the trunks as a severe curve on all three at exactly the same height.
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