While I'm sitting here waiting for some uploads to happen on a client's site, I thought I'd add some more photos again!
I came across ths particular fallen maple tree just off a path near the Chedoke Golf Course, near the escarpment in Hamilton.
A couple neat things I noticed -- one, that there were new branches growing skyward from the fallen trunk (even though it had fallen with no roots left in the ground, it still had enough energy in reserve to try a do what it does naturally), and that there were rather large rocks embedded in the roots.
It is not often that one gets to see a truely uprooted tree, without the soil coming with it too. I'm not sure what brought this one down, but at least in what is likely its death, this tree looked remarkably like a piece of art.
Some time this spring or summer I'll likely return to this spot, to see if it still looks the same, or if somehow it managed to re-root itself (I wouldn't count that out completely, it can happen, given enough energy remaining).
