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STOP There!

...."don't come any closer! My remaining wood is in a perilious state. I am severely weakened, my tired branches can fracture at any time and would fall and injure you. Step back now, you are too close, I cannot guarantee your safety. My time is over, I will soon return to the earth from whence I came. Microbeasts feed upon my frame now. My bark has peeled away exposing my elderly growth. New trees will spring forth from the floundering, I will be a distant memory to those that sheltered under the dappled shadows of my once spreading crown. I bid you farewell dear traveller, please remember me"

 

The demise of a Horse Chestnut tree.

Dude.

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Uploaded on February 21, 2010
Taken on February 20, 2010