Requiem for a Dead Tree

[perrytrails]

I'm with ya on this. I have a place on public ground.

A high ridge that runs for a long ways. I will leave my truck a hour before daylight to get to the top and rest for awhile.

I don't know the total but let me tell ya it's a lot, from the same tree on top that ridge.

I've taken many friends there to fill their tags after I was tagged out.

My son, and my dad has climbed that ridge many times with me. We have worked and taken many birds, created some of my best memories from that same place.

I lost my dad in 2004, he was 84 years old. Still climbs that ridge with me every spring.

I've told several people I want my ashes left on that ridge.

When you find that place it becomes part of you forever.

[shaman]

In reading your responses, I'm feeling lucky in a way.  In my situation,  the loss of the tree has mattered not a whit to the birds.  The things that still draw them to the spot are there.  I just lost a back rest.  Heck, for that matter, I could probably winch that tree off to the side a little and construct a plywood silhouette of stump and go right back to work.

Hey now! That IS an idea. 

Has anyone ever manufactured their own stump?

[turkeywhisperer935]

  My honey hole got clear cut. I mean slaughtered. You could put an airport there now. I know all to well how you feel