An old tree in Silver Spring has succumbed to the winter weather:
http://aroundfourcorners.blogspot.com/2014/03/240-year-old-black-gum-tree-falls.html
It was a beautiful black gum. I hope they replace it with a tree that's going to last another 200+ years.
I have driven by this tree quite a few times since it fell and it was terribly rotten. IMHO it should have been cut down a while ago, the insides are a mess. We are lucky that it only collapsed on something that could be replaced, a fence.
