This is a historic oak growing since the revolutionary war era (late 1700's). During the Civil War (mid 1800's) it was renamed as the Turner Oak; in the 1990's it received this accolade:
Beautiful shots J! I love the big old live oaks! We have a small botanical gardens here in town with quite a few very old, large oaks around the grounds; one is also known as a Confederate Oak; legend has it that confederate soldiers frequently camped beneath it during the civil war. There are lots of Bromeliads growing around and on the trees and a few years ago they had to erect a fence around some of them to keep people from trampling and destroying the broms and climbing the oaks.
~ I'm an old gal who still loves playing in the dirt!
~ Playing in the dirt is my therapy ... and I'm in therapy a lot!