You don’t see a lot of old-growth trees in Central Texas, like these Cypresses at Krause Springs in Burnet County southwest of Austin. The soil is too thin and the storms too frequent to prevent even old trees from being uprooted with regularity. So these monsters, some at ten- to twenty-feet in circumference, were a revelation when encountered over the weekend at the Cub Scout camp out.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 