Saturday, 26 February 2022

Fallen Yew

 
Just nature clearing out the dead wood said the woman chirpily as we stood looking at an ancient forest Yew (Taxus baccata) that had been uprooted by storm Eunice; yeah I thought, that's definitely a thing, although the damage we're seeing with increasing frequency throughout the forest is clearly way beyond that; take the ancient Yew in front of us, it was far from dead wood, nor were many of the trees I'd seen uprooted or truncated. I wondered if the woman told herself that as a mental salve.

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