Old trees

I just like to see these trees, especially the one on the right. It's trunk is so smooth, and the woodpeckers made a home there one year. I wonder how long they will be there?

[katy]

I would worry aobut them collapsing during a storm but how wondereful to have woodpeckers in them. I like the perspective and composition of this one

[Dawn]

I’m like Katy are there any homes close buy

[Tunia McClure]

I had one fall on a perfectly calm day. When they are done they just fall.

[Shutterbug]

I like the pov.

[Corinne C]

A great perspective.

[KWind]

Great capture!

[summerfield]

could be dead, eh?

[Babs]

They look as though they have been hit by lightning.

[Issi Bannerman]

Interesting combination of old and new.

[haskar]

Trees die standing and are so proud until the end.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

The do look striking. Lovely capture.

I had a large dead tree on the edge of my garden but in next doors garden which had looked the same for 40 years, the new neighbours decided (with our permission - I believe I posted pictures of the Tree fellers last august) to chop it down. I miss it, now there is a large gap where it proudly stood.

[Margaret Brown]

A nice place for a woodpecker but hopefully not to near anywhere they could cause damage.

[Kathy]

@grammyn I have wondered how safe they are, but I don't think they could fall on a nearby house. Thank you Katy.
@Dawn There are homes, but I think they are safe. Worse would be that they fall on the power lines.
@tunia You're right about that.
@shutterbug49 Thank you Debbie.
@corinnec Thank you Corinne.
@kwind Thanks Kim.
@summerfield Probably so.
@onewing They've been dead ever since I moved here. Not sure what got them.
@jamibann Thank you Issi.
@haskar A lovely way of thinking about it.
@ziggy77 Thank you Jo. I know I'd miss seeing them. Seems I remember those photos. But there's a rumor that the entire field across from me is to be turned into a housing development. I'll even miss the Bradford pears if that happens.
@craftymeg I think they're safe except for the power lines along the road.

[Pyrrhula]

A pitty they are dead .

[Kathy A]

The one on the right has quite a lean on it

[Kathy]

@pyrrhula Yes, but staying upright despite it.
@kjarn yes, it does. Nothing to hurt in that direction either.