OCOLOY Day 24: Thank you powerlines, said the tree
The lone stump on the right is all that remains of 21 mature trees that were the victims of a chainsaw massacre by the land-owner just over a year ago! This is the corner of the main road and the little lane that leads to our house, so I am reminded everyday of how beautiful they used to be. The chestnut tree on the left would have suffered the same fate but the chainsaw wielder thought that there was too great a risk that the tree would fall on the power-lines and/or the road, so it was reprieved. I never thought that I would be grateful that we have above ground power-distribution!
This image is SOOC and is part of my ongoing OCOLOY project - you can read more about it in my post for 1 January and in my profile.
Fantastic shilouettes against the sky. It would certainly be a lot better with the massacred trees in it. I hope he had a great reason for cutting down the trees. It would be an awful waste if there wasn't.
Oh thankgoodness, here you are. I worried that you had suffered the fate of the tree. Fascinating how in silhouette looks like some one shocked it with electricity.
Not quite a year ago. Coming back from UK family and friends, I drove past the end of our lane! A little further up the road, I realised I'd driven past Vignouse...without realising how! R, wisely, hadn't told me about the massacre, which now left us both bereft. I could have wept. Nature moves on and here is the proof of Nature restoring and reinventing itself. Great joy.
I can cope with power lines, Richard... sometimes I think I quite like them. But contrails? Now I find them really ugly and annoying! Without them I would really like this shot!
I still miss the copse at the end of the lane.