It’s in the trees! it’s coming!
From the Flickr gallery “treepower – trees eating things’. here’s nature making a mockery of our puny human ideas of permanence:
Look closely, the tree’s trunk actually surrounds both wire chain links and the horizontal support pole.
600 block of Rodman Street, Philadelphia
And it’s not just Philadelphia… more trees eating things:
Villagers are calling for a preservation order to be issued to protect a tree that has enveloped pieces of metal, including a bicycle, a ship’s anchor and chain, and a bridle bit.
The sycamore tree, dating from the 1800s, stands in the yard of an old smithy in Brig o’Turk, in the Trossachs, now part of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park. As it grew, the expanding trunk engulfed the blacksmith’s scrap heap around it.
Don’t look now but the trees are taking over.
Frankye
June 1, 2007 at 2:23 amI’m sure I’ve seen similar sights a million times without it really registering. It’s actually pretty…well, creepy when you really take a look. Like something out of an Orson Scott Card novel. But then I’m a person who would prefer all of the natural world locked in flikr accounts and safely walled behind computer screens.
Palau
June 1, 2007 at 2:51 amWhich book was it ? ‘Vaster than empires and more slow’….? ( I may be misquoting)