[KC Burke]

sorry, I should have called it the “short leaf pine”,

Pinus echinata, the shortleaf pine, is a species of pine native to the eastern United States from southernmost New York, south to northern Florida, west to eastern Oklahoma, and southwest to eastern Texas. Shortleaf pine has the largest range of the southern US yellow pines, but reaches its ecological maxima around western Arkansas in the Ouachita Mountains.

[wardaddy]

Thanks KC

I trust your word here

You’re well known to me as a serious poster

Thank u

I used to camp at long pool in the ozarks above Dover in the 70s while at ole miss...it was our closest “mountains”

One night was sub zero and windy ...we got drunk on wild Turkey and passed out in cheap Coleman bags....somehow survived

I have been in hot springs two years in a row...stayed at Luckys old haunt...my kids like it

Not many pines but some

I’m from jax miss....the north south dividing line for loblolly and hard woods

Here in middle Tenneseee almost no pines unless planted

We have evergreens at altitude usually wherever rhododendron grows too

And rocky soil and lower hills have cedars galore

But middle Tn is hardwoods albeit smaller than central Miss varieties...I have a record Chinkapin oak on my ten acres verified by the state....only throws mast on random years....450 year old tree

Thanks again