Really Big Tree.....

 

My neighbor told me that the tree was a cottonwood tree.  It explains why we get cotton-like things flying around in the spring.  We are fortunate  to have two rows of houses that are spaced similarly so we ca see so far down the hill. I really was having a hard time identifying the tree but now it makes sense what it is. The developer must of thought it good to leave it growing and not clearing it out. The houses were built in 2006, three years after ours and I am told it was originally a soybean field. The tree must have been growing next to a farmers fence line.  Now that I understand what I am seeing I know that it really is a big tree farther back that I though.  Do you think my rain clouds could look like the Rocky Mountains.