We had a lovely 3 day weekend in Sequoia National Park where some of the largest trees on the planet live. We spent a couple of hours looking at the giant sequoia trees on General Grant Tree Trail. The first picture is the General Grant tree which is the 3rd largest tree in the world at 29' in diameter at "breast height". The General Grant is also the nation's Christmas tree and it does not even need the little lights and ornaments for it to look beautiful. The second picture is called the Happy Family. We found them to the right of the parking lot. As you can see they are a family of 4 just like us. Two of them are joined at the base because they grow so big that they run out of space between them and eventually fuse together. These are up to 13' in diameter.
The first glimpse of the trees is just awe striking. Its unbelievable how beautiful these trees are. I tried looking at the very top of the trees but I remember that I could see the top of only a couple of them.
I got tears in my eyes when I looked at them- that's how happy they made me. Wonder what the trees think of us! Just imagine their point of view. We may not even be visible to them from their height.
Such magnificence! Such grandeur! Mother Nature is such a strange crafter. On one hand she creates such beauty and on the other hand such devastation! So many people in so much trouble because of floods and storms in New Orleans among other states in the US and in Bombay, India.
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