One more shot from the New Year's walk. We went to the "Dębina" reserve. It is an oak and hornbeam forest with elm, linden and ash. There are many two-hundred-year-old pedunculate oaks here. Unfortunately, lowering the groundwater level causes trees to get sick and die. But even the fallen ones are still beautiful.
I have been interested in photography all my life and remember quite well developing my first black and white films myself... My favorite subjects are...
And fallen trees, left alone, become nurse trees, and new trees can sprout from the decaying log! Nature working at its best, and I love that you were out there capturing it! Beautiful!
This is an amazing stump. We have a place in one of our National Trust gardens called a stumpery, where they have made a woodland walk using tree stumps to line the pathway.
