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Stumpnose dolphins

Posted onJune 21, 2012Leave a comment

Tree stump carved into jumping dolphins

I wrote a while ago about a chair carved out of a tree stump (and its subsequent demise), but it has nothing on this bit of stump art in Peterborough, a pair of dolphins leaping out of the yard. According to Google Street View, the dolphins were hidden inside this tree (in the shadows, at the front of the pickup truck) just three years ago, in August 2009.

How a mature tree gets that way

Posted onApril 6, 2007February 9, 2012Leave a comment

The beginnings of a large tree A small tree gets a little bigger

All it takes is a bit of time. This is my great-grandparents’ North York house around 1942 and again in 2007. The sapling they’d recently planted is barely a lawn ornament in the 1942 shot. Sixty-five years later, you can’t see the house for the tree.