"There was a wooden platform built near the Lone Cypress that one could walk out onto to get a closer shot. But the Lone Cypress had a stone wall around the bottom and wires holding it up, so it didn't look at all natural."
The original died some years ago. They had to replace it, of course, but that required either transplanting a mature tree or waiting 200 years for a young one to grow. The guy wires are there because this is a transplanted, mature tree. Joe
