Some trees just don't know when to give up, and good for them. This old Beech has been battered and bashed, torn and twisted, but has refused to give up and tenaciously holds her ground. It's a tree I've visited many times over the years, it's situated in a nice spot with nice views. Clearly truncated at some point in the quite distant past, a solitary remaining bough has taken up the baton and continues to run with it, keeping the tree alive. The trees trunk is slowly rotting away, and is also being undermined, on a sloping bank, as it is. Although, the bough has thought of this and anchored itself into the high ground behind, supporting the mother trunk and, as insurance if the trunk fails, giving itself a chance of survival by performing its own layer cutting. The force is strong in this one.
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