Posted on 02/04/2025 1:26:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
SFGATE editor-at-large Andrew Chamings on the Lone Cypress, a symbol of American resilience held up by wires
Millions have seen it. Alone on the rocks, watching the waters. The public can’t get too close, just near enough to see its contorted limbs and take a photo before getting out of the wind, back into the car and driving on to the next curated vista point at Pebble Beach. Those who haven’t been lucky enough to stand before the Lone Cypress will recognize its likeness, its silhouette, on expensive golf merchandise, the ESPN ticker, maybe on the header of an email confirming a $1,000-a-night stay. A symbol of stoic resilience on the very edge of America, but also of the moneyed elite.
One thing not depicted in Pebble Beach’s logo, but visible in real life on that craggy headland over Carmel Bay, is a vulgar appendage at the base of this beautiful tree — cement, stones and half-hidden wires. A repair job, plastered around the trunk, in a desperate attempt to keep this marketing tool standing.
As I pulled up to the kiosk to enter 17-Mile Drive, the winds picked up, lifting dead leaves off the ground and sending them swirling into my open driver’s window.
“The waves will be magnificent today,” the lady told me as she took my $12. Some golfers, removing their fluffy driver covers, looked a little grumpy at the growing storm, but I knew it would be a great day to see the tree.
Elitism isn’t new to this corner of the Monterey Peninsula.
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WHO ARE WE TO MAKE SUCH A DECISION???
This is what liberals leftists care about.
Non issue made in to some big deal to advance totalitarianism.
I remember that tree as a child. I always thought it was beautiful. There’s no reason not to prop it up as long as possible. It will die no matter what some day: it’s better if that day is later rather than sooner.
Navel gazing.
The tree under which Hernan Cortez sat and wept, is also about to die in Mexico City.
The arborist has done good work.
Some K***n or Todd just needed something to bitch about.
Checking back, a Todd.
Minnesota has a similar famous tree called the Witch Tree. It’s over 300 years old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Tree
They have about a billion trees in CA, so they worship this one rather than manage the billion.
Well, it won’t look too good on life support. And what about nature? Doesn’t Mother Nature seem to be calling it?
I saw the cables holding it up. It should continue. Plenty of money in those parts.
Liberals hate everything that is kept nice.
They would love to turn Pebble Beach into a homeless camp.
I was able to golf there once. It was the best day of my life.
Kind of like the Old Man of the Mountains on Cannon Mountain in Franconia Notch, NH. Sadly gravity eventually took it to the ground even though it was cabled in place.
https://westernwhitemtns.com/the-legacy-of-the-old-man-of-the-mountain/
They would prefer if the rest would burn to the ground as opposed to Sierra Pacific or anyone else harvesting them.
“WHO ARE WE TO MAKE SUCH A DECISION???”
I AGREE!!!
That headline writes a check the text fails to cash. It’s like the author of this typical turgid liberal prose met his word quota and just stopped without making the point the headline promised
It’s doomed anyway as soon as climate change causes the oceans to rise and drown it.
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