The tree that is no more

You remember I posted some pics of a tree that fell over on Monday? Of course you do, it was only 48 hours ago! I was passing by this afternoon, and took some pictures of the remnants. Well, I say remnants, there's not that much left.

And I say photo, but the light was difficult (honest, it was), and they're not great. But they give some impression of the size of the trunk!

It was this old!

Ent seriously injured during battle with wind

I was passing through Naas this afternoon en-route to a meeting and I had to stop and take a picture of this tree. It had obviously been quite rotten and couldn't stand up to last night's barrage by the wind. Luckily, as far as I know, nobody was hurt except the Ent himself.

It's easy to look at an old tree and think how beautiful it is, and respect what must have happened in the time it's been alive (or treeing, or whatever it is you say a tree does), but at the back of it all, when this happens it's serious. This was a huge tree, which must have carried substantial weight...

*Ent: A fantastical inhabitant of middle-earth, best described as someone whose (thanks pete, it's late) bark was well, their skin. A tree-man, basically.