North of the Verdigris River,
outside the city limits of one of Oklahoma’s smallest, thriving towns, is one of the oldest, and largest, grove of wonderful trees, carrying pecans.
The situation places you literally between Historic Highway 66 and the Will Rogers Turnpike, with no signs, no arrows, nothing that notes this growing and historic part of Rogers County.
A little glimpse shows a hundred trees; looking left, then right, and traveling down the mile and a half of now poorly maintained one lane of road, a thousand trees, or more, line the darkened floors with perfectly symmetrical trees. Take the trip west down the turnpike and you will see a couple hundred trees that are now ten feet tall.
Off of 66, you will see close to a thousand trees with trunks of twenty feet circumference, and tops that cover fifty feet in height and width. These have been here for fifty years or longer. White signs, now faded, bent, are still letting you know these are private trees, nailed high on their trunks.
It is quiet. Beautiful. The wind is restricted by leaves, the sunlight by tree tops, and acres and acres can be seen, looking down their foot print of standing tall against the Oklahoma sun.
Ralph Peck
Photography by Ralph Peck
Verdigris, Oklahoma
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