Whilst on a garden visit recently to the National Trust’s Dunham Massey, we came across an ancient tree just about hanging on to life. There was very little left of the main trunk and what was left was hollow and had lost its bark.
One branch had found enough life there to grow out from one side and produced healthy looking growth. It gave the impression of a young tree growing on top of the remains of a dead one.
I tried a few of the pics in black and white to emphasise the textures.
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3 replies on “The Survivor – Take One Tree”
What a beauty, and you’ve captured the textures through the monochrome.
We have a Horse Chestnut tree in our front yard that is probably a hundred or more years old. It is decayed, split and I don’t understand how it stays upright from storm to storm. The tenacity of a tree and its root system is amazing.
Lovely post about aging trees. They do grow old gracefully, something I hope to do myself Malc. Margie