Yesterday as it was such a nice day my husband and I went for a walk. Last weekend when we went for a walk I didn’t take my camera and afterwards wished I had, so yesterday I made sure I had my camera with me.
Last weekend we saw that about a quarter of the huge old horse chestnut tree on our village green had come down in the recent storms. There was a huge pile of debris and the local children were climbing in it. When I passed it the next day most of it had been sawn into logs and taken away. Before I could go back with my camera it had all gone. It had very quickly and efficiently been cleared away and my chance to photograph it was lost.
We decided to go through the fields then the woods before dropping back down to the village green.
A tree is down in the field near where we live
This is a huge old tree
It’s completely rotten inside
It’s also been eaten away by something
It was a pretty big tree
The woodland floor is strewn with fallen branches
This fallen tree fills this driveway
I took this from the bank opposite which is why there are wires in the foreground.
This was the best shot I could get from the road as the sunlight was dazzling
The old horse chestnut tree on the green has lost a quarter of it’s branches
This photo doesn’t show how much of the tree fell as it was removed so quickly but the pile of debris reached as high as the break in the branch.
The cellar of the pub on the green has been flooded for many weeks
The water is constantly being pumped out into the road
We are very lucky compared to some parts of the country that have had their homes flooded but even we have water laying on the ground that will take a long time to go and lot’s of tree damage. Luckily I feel the trees that have come down are old and it’s natures way of thinning the woodland and the rotting trees will break down and complete the woodland cycle of life.
I just wanted to make a bit of a record of recent events to look back on. Even our little neck of the woods has it’s own local drama.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
I compared this post with your last post of your plant photos and it just goes to show you what a difference a week makes . Also how spring will always arrive and give us hope with old trees and plants for example making way for new .
You are so right. The one thing we really did notice is that all the trees that have fallen in the woods are crumbling and rotten and already powdering away to dust. I think the winds are natures way of felling the weak and returning their goodness back to the ground.
Also as you say, however bad a winter we have spring will always come again.