Big tree, fake
On recent excursions out to Great Falls park on the Potomac river with various members of my family (one of which my mother, visiting from Arizona, still refers to guardedly, because we took her on a shortcut which ended up being a three mile hike through the woods) I have had occasion to exclaim "hey that's not a tree over there, that's a big honking metal tower painted to look like a tree!" To which my sisters and nieces and nephews invariably reply "sure unkie, whatever you say, its one of those new "metal tree's", if you want it to be." But now: It's tough to spot, but there is a pine tree in Great Falls Park that's a little taller and fatter than most of the others in the dense forest. The tree -- with a steel trunk, rubber bark and plastic needles -- is actually a cellphone tower in disguise, bolted to a concrete base and surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. Missing the Tower for the Trees The article actually seems to refer to a "tree" on the Virginia side of Great Falls built by Digital Design & Imaging Service Inc. of Falls Church (or perhaps, also, a tree on the Virginia side). The picture in the article shows a tree similar to the one on the Maryland side.
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