Along the beach at Cape San Blas was evidence that someone had been collecting the fatwood from old pines that once lived above the shoreline. There were several of these recently cut stumps.
We had to wonder to what purpose it was collected. The wood was really beautiful. So, hopefully, it was made into something beautiful and not just burned.
There were some folks doing dendrochronology work near there:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stjosephbaypreserves.org/docs/NAAR2403_Huffman_258-268.pdf
That paper (PDF ALERT!) details it. I met Bill Platt at Tall Timbers, and we actually watched the election together in The Shack.
So maybe this is related to that?