Beautiful burl

Another face in the wood
London, ON
April 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Deep in the woods, there’s an old, dead tree lying in pieces in the scrub beside the walking path.

No one pays it much attention - or any attention at all - as they walk on past, as there’s far more excitement to be had elsewhere as the season of life returns to forest. Birds are singing, buds are exploding, and the creek that feeds them all is overflowing its banks.

It’s like a construction site, nature-style.

Yet it’s the castoff dead wood that’s pulled me in on this grey, miserable day. The knotted texture tells stories of its own heyday here, of what this place might have been like when it, too, towered high above and grew shoots of its own.

It still has a story to tell, a final chapter, perhaps, of life in a place that never stops evolving. Of what life is, or can be, long after the rest of us may have written it off. Of stories continuing even after most of us have stopped reading.

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