Hard To Keep A Good Man Down

A while back I posted about one of my favourite Banyan trees getting ripped up by a passing almost-a-tornado.

There he is (was) on the left.  A massive tree.

After the storm came through, he was completely uprooted.

[For a refresher on this guy, see Mother Nature Wins Another One.]

Like Humpty Dumpty, city workers tried to put him back together again by re-rooting him and putting irrigation piping in (white piping around his bottom) but with all that trauma, nobody was holding their breath.

Well a couple of months later and the old boy is back in (nearly) top form.

Green is growing out of everywhere.  (Which, from my experience, is not always good.)

Hey, there's even a house in behind him!  How long has that been there?

[You can see one of the aerial roots in front is still uprooted.]

Keep on truckin', little buddy.