Older than Methuselah, older than the Roman Empire, older than the fall of Troy — the ancient live oak of Rio Frio, Texas commands the frame of this chrome postcard with the quiet authority of something that has simply outlasted everything around it, its massive trunk, some 29 feet in circumference at its widest, splitting into enormous gnarled limbs that reach outward a full 114 feet, dwarfing the modest white clapboard farmhouse sheltering behind it like a sapling. Estimated at approximately 3,670 years old at the time of this card's printing, the tree was alive roughly 1,700 years before Christ — a figure the card's text invites the reader to pause and truly absorb. Photographed by Charles R. Walcott and published by Walcott & Sons of San Angelo, Texas, this is a quintessential roadside-wonder postcard from the golden age of American highway tourism, the kind of card slipped into a spinner rack at a rural gas station or general store along a South Texas scenic drive. Unposted and in good condition, it preserves a marvel of the natural world in the chrome colors of its era.