TREES IN A TREE

Hello. This is an 'I'm still here, really!' sort of post. I have had the bone marrow stem cell transplant and am waiting to see if it's 'worked'. So far, so good - but nothing is definite yet. What a lot of anxious waiting!

But I'll put some pictures here of one of my favourite local trees. Not only is it huge and rugged but it supports an extra burden of plants and even trees growing along one of its lower branches.

There's a magnificent fern.

And a dandelion.

A sycamore.

(Which is not as sickly as it looks. I adjusted the image to make it easier to see against a background of other leaves and managed to sap it of all its nutrients in the process.)

And a . . . beech? alder? Anyone?

I think the host tree is a lime . . . . but I'll be in hospital for several more weeks so we'll need to leave that hanging.

Hope you are all well.

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