We were on our third day of walking in the Cotswolds when I realized how big the trees were. Now, I’ve seen plenty of big trees in my life before – I hike in the mountains where there are forests of trees; I’ve seen the Redwoods in California; and we even have a gigantic maple tree in our front yard. But through this no-more-than half-mile stretch of our walk that day, which happened to be on the Cotswolds Way between the villages of Stanton and Stanway, I realized that these were types of trees that I had never seen before. And they were big.
Most of these big trees were green…
But some were red…
Some were flowering…And made a nice foreground for some cows…
Even the trees that no longer had their leaves on were big…
From then on, I noticed big trees in the Cotswolds on other days of our walks…
Where they made good shade for some sheep…
Many churches had big trees next to them…
And they say that these big yew trees framing a door at St. Edward’s Church on Stow-on-the-Wold inspired J.R.R. Tolkien…
In seeing all these big trees in the Cotswolds, I unfortunately never did think to climb one. Nor did I think about what it would be like to have a tree house in one. I don’t even know how old these big trees were. Or what variety of trees they were. But I do know one thing about the big trees in the Cotswolds…
They made my husband seem really tiny…
Sweet Travels!