Yep, that's a hat-rack if ever I saw one!
It looks like it was probably a branch years ago that, for whatever reason, each year's growth of bark grew around rather than incorporating. I've seen things like it in white pines around here, but never to that, erm, extent...
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It looks like it was probably a branch years ago that, for whatever reason, each year's growth of bark grew around rather than incorporating. I've seen things like it in white pines around here, but never to that, erm, extent...
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake