Friday 16 October 2009

feeling a bit sad today


A couple of days ago I was walking home from the school run (don't get a chance to think on the way to school, let alone look around!) and I saw an amazing formation of fungus (is that the right phrase?) it was growing on the side of the stump of a tree which had been felled earlier in the year. It was beautiful, almost like someone had loosely laid some fabric down in folds.
I made a note to myself to go back and photograph it so I could show you what I was talking about when I blogged it.

But when I went back - some mindless fool had destroyed it, it was in pieces all over the grass - perhaps kicked apart? I don't know, but what a terrible shame that someone can look at something created by nature, something beautiful, something useful and all they can think about is destroying it.

very sad

3 comments:

Caroline said...

hate to say it, but it sounds like honey fungus! This is pretty destructive to trees and maybe someone thought they were helping by kicking it off?
But I do know what you mean! I was always heartbroken when those little cherry trees got snapped in half not long after planting along Sandridge road.

moonmamma said...

just looked up images of honey fungus, and although I didnt that close to the stuff I saw it does look familiar, but is it such a problem when its a tree already felled, and no other trees in spitting distance?

Caroline said...

it is pretty dreadful and can travel quite a distance!