It’s so easy to see holes in trees as the eyes of some huge pachyderm
It was inevitable when I walked around Llandaff Fields recently that I would encounter one of my favourite trees. Please indulge me while I give it a blog post of its own. This was the first tree I ever followed, in 2014. You can see all my previous posts about it here.
This is a record of my most recent visit…
My beloved hornbeam in Llandaff Fields – the first tree I ever followed
The canopy from one side…
…and from the other side
Leafy shoots from the roots…
…the leaves are so beautifully fluted
There was always a good show of lichen and moss
On closer inspection the glint in the tree’s eye was just a couple of dead insects caught in a spider’s web
They say you never forget falling in love for the first time (with a tree)…
The Squirrelbasket 
Hello Hornbeam. Very happy to catch up with you again.
And we would never have met had it not been for you the matchmaker š
how kind to grow leaves, down here, where we can see the details
Indeed! It’s usually one of my prerequisites for choosing a tree to follow.
All the best š