Our thanks to Robert W. Cook for sending in this striking photograph of the towering Western red cedar beside his South Avenue home, a tree he says he has been told rises to about 120 feet and may well be among the tallest in New Canaan. Mr. Cook’s note to the Sentinel did more than identify a remarkable specimen. It offered the seed of a fine community idea: inviting readers to share the great trees of town and the stories attached to them. We are grateful to him for both the image and the prompt. A tree like this does not merely occupy a yard; it gives shape, scale and memory to a place, and Mr. Cook was right to suggest that New Canaan’s most impressive trees deserve their own notice. Thank you, Mr. Cook, for helping us look up.
