Tree Appreciation Tuesday

 Conditions were muddy, and water lying on the top of the Mendips on Black Down Moor. After a walk with friends of a couple of hours or so exposed to the strong winds and squally showers, we were lead by Janette into Rowberrow Warren to return to our starting point through the wooded hillside.

Rowberrow Warren Older Beech Tree

I have since looked up details of the Rowberrow Warren woodland on the Forestry Commission Site.  Most of the trees are relatively young, but just as we were leaving the wood on the West Mendip Way, transecting the path was a little stream toppling down the slope. Without the rain we have had and in the summer this is probably  dry gulley.  On the eastern bank there were a couple of much older trees, the farther one hardly still living.  The one closer to the path is the subject of this week's fulsome appreciation.

This post is in the series Tree Appreciation Tuesday.