Bough down

I know unseasonal weather has always been a thing, it's a regular retort from the climate crisis naysayers, though it's different today, our intervention in the last 250 years is a dangerous variable. One of the aspects of change I've noticed most over the last two decades is the increasing wind speeds we get throughout the year. It's one thing strong winds through the winter months when the trees are bare, though through the summer months when the canopies are full is another thing altogether, a frequently destructive thing. Combine that with a noticeable increase of extremes, see-sawing from saturated to desiccated, weakening many trees tenure, stressing them and making them vulnerable. After yesterdays winds (which weren't really that strong), there was damage to be seen, only a couple of trees over (that I saw), though plenty of bough damage. Here, on the edge of Brinken Wood, a huge Oak had lost a mighty bough. Well, more than just a bough, it represented about a quarter of the tree's canopy. Bummer.