The Marches, Shropshire: Recently I had wondered how long this great lime would stay standing. The next day, I had my answer
How quickly something that defines a landscape for centuries becomes the absence that redefines it – so it is with ancient trees. The trunk snapped like a carrot at the roots and crashed, its bony branches splintered. Now it lies like a shipwreck stranded in an open field, its hulk of twigs an animal pelt stilled.
A day before, looking at its 300-year-old architecture of mostly dead wood yet so vividly alive, admiring its form and persistence through years and trouble, standing alone with spring coursing through the land and its timbers, I wondered how long, in tree time, it had left.
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The Marches, Shropshire: Recently I had wondered how long this great lime would stay standing. The next day, I had my answerHow quickly something that defines a landscape for centuries becomes the absence that redefin...
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