Magnolia Flowers

The magnolia tree is almost finished blooming.

But not quite!

Siamese Trees From the Inside

Another log in the forest shows how trees have grown together. And I have no idea why the chainsaw made this fancy cut.

Sometimes the bark remains, and sometimes it doesn't. That answers a question I have been wondering about for several years.

Siamese Trees

Last April, I was studying the trees which had grown together

over the years, wondering what the insides looked like.

I don't recall having seen this phenomenon in other wooded areas.