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A favourite oak tree near the Roman Road, Zarzalejo.

A favourite oak tree near the Roman Road, Zarzalejo.
The stones that would have onced paved the Roman road are probably all in the walls!
A semi-evergreen!

micritter, Gudrun, Doug Shepherd, goandgo and 16 other people have particularly liked this photo

16 comments - The latest ones
 Frans Schols
Frans Schols club
Het word dan langzaam tijd om alle stenen weer terug te plaatsen.(lol)
Leuke opname!
Groeten,Frans.
5 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Frans Schols club
You mean over time the walls will fall down and re-populate the road! LOL!
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Jenny McIntyre
Jenny McIntyre club
Well I suppose they had to use something to make the walls with and the stones were there for the taking. I love that old oak tree. How old do they say it is? I wonder if it was there when the Romans were making the road, or when the people made the walls.
5 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Jenny McIntyre club
Great comments, Jenny!
I can follow the course of the Roman road on arial photography (Google Maps) and the path today doesn't exactly follow it except in a few stretches. Over centuries, landowners will have used the road as a natural boundary line but every time they needed to build a new wall they would probably encroach a few metres and then occasionally forbid entry and the path would have to skirt round, etc etc.
Where this lane and tree is, it is slightly off line from the path of the old road; it rejoins it about 100 yards further on.
The tree? I guess 200-400 years. Hard to tell but certainly long after the Romans!
And yes, you have to duck under it!
5 years ago. Edited 5 years ago.
 Andy Rodker
Andy Rodker club
Ronald,
Larry,
Thankl you both!
5 years ago.
 Ulrich John
Ulrich John club
A great game with light and shadows !
5 years ago.
 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Lovely play of light and shadow.
5 years ago.
 Marie-claire Gallet
Marie-claire Gallet
Light and shadow !! GORGEOUS, Andy ***********************
5 years ago.
 Rosalyn Hilborne
Rosalyn Hilborne club
A lovely gnarly old oak!
5 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Rosalyn Hilborne club
I fell in love with it when I first saw it in October 2011, Rosa. I have uploaded a couple of shots of it before now!
Many thanks!
5 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
gorgeous tree, well spotted !
5 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Nora Caracci club
It is. Isn't it,Nora!!
5 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
What a wonderful twisted tree.
5 years ago.
Andy Rodker club has replied to Esther club
Easily one of my favoutite trees! Thank you, Esther!
5 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
I can see why it's one of your favourties, the shadow from the other tree adds to it.
5 years ago.

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